elected - hofreps - 1970

Contexts in which the word elected was used in the House of Representatives during the 1970s

Is he able to say whether each State Companies Act and Territory Companies Ordinance fixes a maximum tenure of office for which a director of a public company can be elected without being required to face another election; if so, what are the maximum terms laid down. [More…]
an elected contributors’ representative - Mr P. J. Clay, Crown Solicitor, Department of Law, Papua and New Guinea Administration (appointed for 5 years from 2nd February 1968). [More…]
What visits have been made by elected and official persons (a) from the Territory of Papua and New Guinea to Malaysia and (b) from Malaysia to the Territory to study land resettlement schemes, and when. [More…]
I am certain that many of them will respond to that opportunity, that we will see the great conservation tasks for which Australia is crying urgently carried out by a Labor government, that it will be in power to do this within the next 12 months or so, and that it will make the carrying out of this task, immediately it is elected, a No. [More…]
The electors of Canning elected me to represent them in this place. [More…]
In one case the widow of a New Guinea worker elected to accept an offer of a sum less than the amount prescribed for payment to a widow fully dependent on an employee who died from injury by accident arising out of or in the course of his employment. [More…]
The widow who received part compensation elected to accept the settlement without taking the case to court. [More…]
After all, when a government is elected and the Cabinet looks at measures it has to take a lot of notice of what money is being collected and what money can be spent not only on pensions but on many different things. [More…]
Mr Speaker, may 1 seek your advice as a comparatively newly elected member of this chamber who is somewhat frustrated and disappointed? [More…]
I desire to inform the House that the Parliamentary Party of the Australian Country Party has elected me as its Leader and has elected as Deputy Leader my colleague, Mr Sinclair. [More…]
By the endorsement on the writ it is certified that Edward Bruce Lloyd has been elected. [More…]
I might add that the construction of a community college at Darwin was part of the original platform on which I was elected to this House. [More…]
Is it further suggested that the respective elected members of the House of Assembly be the leaders of the self-governing areas? [More…]
Has the Government any objection to elections being held, whereby the self-governing areas could have elected representatives, at the same time as the next election for the House of Assembly in February? [More…]
Consideration will be given to the need for a redistribution at the appropriate time if there are marked variations in the number of electors enrolled for the Division in a State, even though the determination by the Chief Electoral Officer may indicate that no alteration is to be made .in the number of Members in the House of Representatives to be elected for the State. [More…]
Your petitioners also humbly pray that the Australian Government take the initiative in urging the instatement of Sheik Mujibur Rahman as the elected leader of his people and the creating of a political climate which will enable the refugees now in India to make a speedy, safe return to their own country. [More…]
What is the estimated additional cost to the Commonwealth when a member of the House of Representatives voluntarily resigns at a time other than at the expiry of the term for which he was elected and thereby causes a by-election to be held. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State of Queensland will this year conduct an election for certain positions in The Australian Workers’ Union and that some of these positions, namely, Delegates to Annual Convention, are to be elected on the basis of one delegate for each 4,000 members or part thereof, of the organisation in the Queensland branch of that organisation. [More…]
I must remind honourable members opposite that we are sensitive to the views of the elected members of the House of Assembly, and I must point out that this is not the attitude of honourable members opposite because the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) said: ‘You will have self-government in 1972. [More…]
Apparently he does not remember - he might be a little young to remember - that the Menzies Government was elected in 1949 on many promises which the Liberal-Country Party Government has failed to implement during the last 22 years. [More…]
In each of the organisations what is the number of (a) people and (b) elected contributor representatives on their governing body. [More…]
The Victorian State President of the Returned Services League was reported in the Melbourne ‘Sun’ of 15 January as saying that the Minister for Defence, prior to the election and when he was Deputy Leader of the Opposition and spokesman on defence and repatriation matters, had informed the President of the British subbranch of the Returned Servicemen’s League that if elected the Australian Labor Party would amend the appropriate Act to provide war service homes loans for British exservicemen resident in Australia. [More…]
Following the enactment of the Remuneration and Allowances Act 1973 the Government reviewed the fees and allowances payable to the elected members of the Northern Territory Legislative Council and announced its approval to the following increases with effect from 6 May 1973. [More…]
From memory, not one member of the Country Party has ever won more than 50 per cent of the primary votes before being elected to this Parliament. [More…]
not one member of the Country Party has ever won more than SO per cent of the primary votes before being elected to this Parliament. [More…]
I point out that I have been elected on the first count, I think, on every occasion that I have been elected to this Parliament, which involves some 5 elections. [More…]
Country Party has ever won more than 50 per cent of the primary vote before being elected to this Parliament. [More…]
I claim to have been misrepresented in this respect: As the member elected for the Division of Cowper I have obtained 50 per cent of the primary vote and I have been elected without a distribution of preferences, which is contrary to what was claimed to have occurred by the Minister for Services and Property. [More…]
Will he give an assurance that he will not ignore the elected representatives of ‘the people of the Australian Capital Territory on the Council and that in future all proposed new Ordinances and amendments to existing Ordinances will be referred to the Council for advice before implementation. [More…]
When will he reconstruct the Northern Territory Legislative Council to provide for a fully elected assembly. [More…]
What progress has been made with members of the Legislative Council in regard to constitutional advancement, giving more direct powers to the elected Members in respect of State-like responsibilities. [More…]
It is the objective of the Government to introduce a fully elected legislative assembly for the Northern Territory by, 31 December 1974. [More…]
Is it a fact that many members of the Opposition were elected to this House on Australian Democratic Labor Party preferences? [More…]
By the endorsement on the writ it is certified that Philip Maxwell Ruddock has been elected. [More…]
At an ALP meeting at Burnie on October 16th, 1968, Mr Davies stated that dairymen would lose their subsidy if a Federal Labor Government was elected. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Council for Aboriginal Affairs was established by the late Prime Minister Holt to advise him on Aboriginal opinion, is it proposed to abolish this Council upon the first meeting of the National Advisory Council which is now being elected. [More…]
and (4) A committee of disputed returns, comprising three Aboriginals, was elected by a meeting of the interim National Aboriginal Consultative Committee in May 1973 and - dispute over the qualifications of a nominated candidate would have been considered by that committee. [More…]
The honourable gentleman will recall that partly as a result of his own advocacy over the years the right honourable member for Lowe, his own leader at that time and my immediate predecessor as Prime Minister, went to the polls, as I also did, on the proposal, the undertaking, to abolish the means test in the life of the Parliament then being elected. [More…]
I have been elected on 9 occasions to this Parliament, and if the Senate takes the unprecedented course of rejecting these Bills I will be a candidate and I am confident of being re-elected. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I desire to inform the House that the Parliamentary Party of the Australian Country Party has elected me as its Leader, the honourable member for New England, Mr Sinclair, as its Deputy Leader and the honourable member for Calare, Mr England, as the Whip. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I desire to inform the House that the Parliamentary Liberal Party has elected me as its Leader and the honourable member for Flinders, Mr Lynch, as Deputy Leader. [More…]
Mr Chairman, you will recall that the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) could have given the power to a delegated public servant to override decisions taken by the elected State governments or the elected local government bodies throughout Australia. [More…]
The Government has twice in less than two years been elected to carry out programs of social reform and progress. [More…]
Evans Deakin elected not to tender in respect of those vessels. [More…]
The delegates who sit on the Board are elected by their respective Community Committees and are as follows: [More…]
Here he is, amongst all Labor members, elected by Communist Party funds, and he tries to dredge up some story about the League of Rights and the Country Party in Queensland. [More…]
The honourable member, elected on Communist Party funds, has the cheek to come into this place and dredge up some scurrilous story about the League of Rights and the Country Party. [More…]
We consider that the members recently elected- we will not go through the business of the electionshould have the right to consider this matter. [More…]
They have been elected to represent the citizens of the Northern Territory in whatever legislature is established there. [More…]
I have known him since he was elected to the Parliament. [More…]
Mr Speaker, on behalf of the Government I have the greatest pleasure in congratulating the honourable member for Perth (Mr Berinson) on being elected Chairman of Committees. [More…]
It will be known that Mr Berinson was elected to this House in 1969. [More…]
Mr Speaker, on behalf of the Government I have the greatest pleasure in congratulating you on being elected to the highest position to which the House can elect any of its members. [More…]
It is less than 8 years since you were elected to the House. [More…]
Many honourable members will remember the impression that you made in the campaign in which you were elected to the House. [More…]
Two years ago, when I congratulated you on behalf of the Government on being elected Chairman of Committees, I said that all those who had served you in the Parliament knew what an avid student you are of parliamentary procedures and what a redoubtable proponent you are of parliamentary rights. [More…]
I commend Mr Berinson on being elected as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
He rejected it in the face of the people who were elected by the citizens of the Northern Territory, and Darwin in particular. [More…]
After all, the Prime Minister said that there will be a fully elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
For this gentleman to go to a foreign land and to rubbish his own land and its Government which was duly and democratically elected is to plumb the very depths of indecency. [More…]
It is traditional for a representative of the same party to be elected to fill casual vacancies. [More…]
We listened to what the honourable member for Lilley said about what this chamber represents, namely, the popularly elected government, the legal representatives, the law makers. [More…]
Since 2 December 1972, when this Government of great reform was elected, we have been dealing with the manipulations of industries that were bestowed on us by the McEwen era. [More…]
Accordingly, the Government which twice has been elected by the people is able to govern. [More…]
I wish to inform the House that the National Country Party has elected me as its Leader, the honourable the Minister for Primary Industry, Mr Sinclair, as Deputy Leader and the honourable member for Maranoa, Mr Corbett, as Party Whip. [More…]
Mr Snedden is therefore declared elected. [More…]
I have the honour to inform the House that the Parliamentary Labor Party has elected me as Leader, the honourable member for Reid, Mr Uren, as Deputy Leader, the honourable member for Bonython, Mr Nicholls, as Whip and the honourable member for Hunter, Mr James, as Deputy Whip. [More…]
In his absence I should like to record my congratulatory comments to the newly elected Speaker, the right honourable member for Bruce, Mr Snedden, and also to the returned Chairman of Committees, Mr Lucock. [More…]
Since the Prime Minister was first elected to the Federal Parliament in 1955 he has visited Singapore on a number of occasions. [More…]
The objects of the Bill are to make special long service leave provisions for those New South Wales- and South Australian teachers who were employed in the Australian Capital Territory and in the Northern Territory respectively in 1973 and who elected to join the Commonwealth Teaching Service before 1 January 1974. [More…]
Apart from a number of other provisions the essential clause is clause 9 which guarantees preservation of long service leave conditions for New South Wales and South Australian teachers who were teaching in the Australian Capital Territory and in the Northern Territory in 1 973 and who elected to join the Teaching Service before 1 January 1974. [More…]
I begin by saying that the Australian Labor Party’s platform provides for participatory democracy in union affairs and provides that no financial union member shall be deprived of the right to vote in the election of union committees exercising any powers of management and that no committee man shall be permitted to occupy a full time office unless he is elected by a direct secret vote of the rank and file of his union. [More…]
I ask for leave to incorporate in Hansard a list giving examples of the unions which had full time office bearers elected directly by the membership and those where the election was by the collegiate system. [More…]
It consisted of a chairman and two other members one of whom was to be elected by the Advisory Council of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Does he call the ballots that elected him to his paid position corrupt? [More…]
If so, what steps can be taken by the Government to prevent a situation in which an elected person, or a non-elected person for that matter, who is the target of minority interests is not free to move around the country without bearing the brunt of violent disturbances? [More…]
3 ) Would any such Member be eligible for any lump-sum payment upon defeat or retirement, if he elected to accept a Parliamentary pension of 50 per cent. [More…]
What would be the respective lump-sum entitlements due to a public servant who, having paid the respective amounts referred to in paragraphs (a) to (1) of part ( 1 ), elected to retire on a 5 per cent superannuation pension at 65 years of age after (a) 1 5 years, (b) 20 years, (c) 25 years and (d) 30 years of service. [More…]
Do all countries treat their elected national representatives in the same manner; if not, will he make a submission to Cabinet recommending a higher passport status for Members of the Australian Parliament travelling overseas on official business. [More…]
How many taxpayers elected to pay the 2.S per cent Medibank levy charge. [More…]
How many taxpayers elected to join private medical and hospital benefits funds. [More…]
As this issue has far-reaching social consequences for the people of the Australian Capital Territory, I feel it should be discussed and debated by the elected members of the Legislative Assembly in Canberra. [More…]
Will the Attorney-General confirm that he has received a joint approach from all 7 elected representatives from the Territories on behalf of the people of the Territories that the Commonwealth arrange for those Territories to be separately represented in the High Court challenge? [More…]
If the Legislative Assembly, which was not elected with this question as an election issue, opts for free standing abortion clinics, does the Government - [More…]
The danger to the Australian Government and Australia in these areas is that no one in an elected capacity on either side of the Parliament can say whether they are accurate or inaccurate. [More…]
1 ) and (2) Statistics of taxpayers who elected to pay the health insurance levy or to join private funds are not at present available. [More…]
We have democratically elected members of the Austraiian Labor Party in Parliament. [More…]
I am talking about his conduct in the House as a democratically elected person. [More…]
What is the average term of office for which persons are elected in union elections. [More…]
I see, as the first consequence of any action taken, an attempt by a responsible government to provide services to the people and the community that elected it. [More…]
By the endorsement on the writ it is certified that Stewart John West has been elected. [More…]
We were elected by the people of Australia. [More…]
Tonight I heard some comment that perhaps the Queen’s representative elected us. [More…]
I can assure anyone listening that the people of Australia elected us when they gave this Government a record majority. [More…]
On behalf of my colleagues in the National Country Party, I would like to congratulate you, Mr Speaker, on again being elected to the very high office of Speaker of this House. [More…]
I wish to inform the House that I have been elected Leader of the National Country Party. [More…]
The Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) has been elected as my deputy and the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) is the Party Whip. [More…]
I wish to inform the House that I have been elected Leader of the Opposition by the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party. [More…]
What would happen, for example, if in the future the Queensland legislation were altered to provide not for an elected council but for an appointed council? [More…]
Has the administrator of the Councils told Aboriginal leaders that it may be over 7 months before the State Cabinet prepares the promised leases for the next elected Councils. [More…]
Will he ensure that all funds allocated to Queensland for these communities are paid promptly without State imposed conditions to the Councils immediately they are elected and that prompt acknowledgement is made to him by the Councils. [More…]
That will pave the way for fresh elections to be held so that an all-Aboriginal council may be elected at free and open elections. [More…]
Two members of the Liberal Party, who had the confidence of that Party to the degree that they were endorsed candidates for office and had been elected to Parliament, because they were not prepared to subscribe to the degree of corruption, abuse of public office and use of office for personal gain- five members of the Liberal Government in Victoria- were subjected to a kangaroo court and were expelled from the party. [More…]
-I am pleased to inform the House that I have been elected as Chairman of the Publications Committee. [More…]
That because the House of Representatives is the people’s House and is elected on a basis of equal franchise it should have exclusive responsibility to form an executive government and initiate government policy; [More…]
Has Carlemo Wacondo been refused an appointment with him, after a special trip and a 3 day stay in Canberra, on the grounds that only representatives elected under Queensland Government elections will be recognised as Islander representatives. [More…]
As I made clear in my statement to the House on 9 October1979, part of my decision in respect of the deportation of Mr Grunau was that Mrs Grunau, and the children of Mr and Mrs Grunau, should be offered passages to the Federal Republic of Germany at Commonwealth expense if Mrs Grunau elected to accompany her husband with their Australian-born children. [More…]
As I explained at the second reading stage we believe that financial statements coming from land councils should be open to the perusal of the Parliament, an elected body, and not just a member of the Executive. [More…]
The procedures by which the Territory Budget is framed will be changed so that elected Members will have a greater voice in the actual drafting of the Budget. [More…]
It ought to be intolerable to any elected body, a government, which claims to accept a responsibility to* discharge a moral obliga tion to the community. [More…]
The main changes made at that time provided for increased participation by elected members in the executive government of the Territory through a system of Ministerial offices and the replacement of the former Administrator’s Council by the Administrator’s Executive Council. [More…]
In 1968 in accordance with the amendments to the Act 7 Ministerial Members and 8 Assistant Ministerial Members were appointed from elected members of the House of Assembly. [More…]
These office holders were selected from elected members of the House jointly by the Ministerial Nominations Committee of the House and the Administrator before being nominated to the Minister for appointment. [More…]
Having regard to the changes I have mentioned, regulations will be made under the Act to govern some procedural matters including the recording of Council decisions and their transmission to the Commonwealth Government There will also be changes in the procedures by which the Territory budget is framed so that elected members of the House of Assembly will have a greater say in the budget. [More…]
Throughout the period during which the budget is being framed it is expected that the Estimates Sub-committee of the Council will keep in touch with the existing Budget Committee of the House of Assembly, a body made up wholly of elected members, with a view to informing themselves of any points which members of the House may wish to have considered in the draft estimates for the following year. [More…]
Nevertheless the Government considers steps should be taken now so that the elected representatives of the people take on additional responsibilities in the government of the Territory. [More…]
The changes I have outlined reflect the Government’s approach of progressively transferring responsibility to elected members of the Territory House of Assembly. [More…]
Whilst I do not want to refer to it any further, there is also in the system of Papua and New Guinea a dash of the Swiss arrangement in that Ministers are elected trans-party in the House of Assembly. [More…]
The Government should take positive steps and do the job people elected it to do. [More…]
All I can say is that it is a shameful performance for any honourable member elected to this Parliament, to incite trade unions to act against decisions of the Government. [More…]
Mr O’KEEFE (Paterson) [3.181- Mr Speaker, I rise to second the motion for the adoption of the Address-in-Reply so ably moved by the honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr Brown), lt is a privilege to be allocated this task and I regard it as an honour to the people of Paterson who have elected me to this 27th Commonwealth Parliament as their member. [More…]
Many other social groups bring pressure to bear upon the elected decision makers, often a good deal more blatantly and with more narrowly vested interests than the political parties themselves. [More…]
I heard the honourable member refer to one newly elected Minister as a racist. [More…]
the governments of 112 nations in the United Nations, including our great and powerful allies, called on Australia to transfer full executive and legislative powers to elected New Guineans. [More…]
I am pleased to be the first elected member of this Parliament to represent an electorate which bears the name of Holt. [More…]
Years ago, before he was elected to this Parliament, the honourable member for Mackellar operated a newspaper in the Wollongong-Port Kembla area called the Illawarra Star’. [More…]
Apart from the legislation, I can only say, as I have already said today, that I draw the attention of good trade unionists in Australia to the way in which they are so often misused by these people whom they have elected to office believing they would serve their interests but who, in fact, are serving their own political interests. [More…]
This was a meeting of people with a reactionary programme running counter to specific recommendations of the United Nations Trusteeship Council, to the determinations of their own House of Assembly and the popularly elected council, the multi-racial council. [More…]
Today, many union leaders are elected by a minute number of the members of that union or those working in a job represented by that union. [More…]
I remember some years ago attending meetings of the Rabaul Town Council - there is no local council; no elected body in Rabaul township itself. [More…]
Why should we tolerate it in elected bodies which, on both sides of the House, we are committed to promoting? [More…]
this Council is concerned about its position as the lawfully elected governing body of the Gazelle Peninsula. [More…]
Let me say immediately that I am honoured and delighted to be here as the newly elected member for Franklin, an, electorate that returns to the Labor Party after an absence of some 23 years. [More…]
Let me say, Mr Speaker, that, having been elected to this place, that in spite of the cascade of vituperation and the reams of ridicule heaped upon and hurled at the Leader of the Opposition, I am very proud indeed to be here to reinforce his crusading zeal and his humanitarian approach to many contemporary problems as he endeavours to put into practice the blueprint for a revitalised Australia as we enter the challenges and the rewards of the ’70s. [More…]
I have listened with amazement to Government members attacking the ordinary citizens of this great land and in fact, of my electorate, who happen to belong to a trade or labour organisation in the course of earning their living, and their elected representatives, the shop stewards and union officials, who despite whatever political ideology they follow, step forward to present a citizen’s case in a similar manner to a member of Parliament, and are an essential component of the working of an arbitration system, some rising to the ranks of the Arbitration Commission itself. [More…]
We understand now that the Leader of the Opposition, who resigned and was re-elected by 38 votes to 34, heads an executive that is controlled by the left wing. [More…]
The Federal Executive made sure that left wingers were elected to the executive of the Parliamentary Labor Party and they now have control. [More…]
It was not until 1823 that advisory councils to the governor were established - not elected, but appointed. [More…]
Then in 1842 partly elected legislative councils were set up with limited power. [More…]
All we require is leadership not only in the Federal sphere but also from the Premiers of the States and our State elected representatives to get together on a true basis of federation. [More…]
I do not intend to waste this help and support by dissipating my time on meaningless activity, and I say this as someone who has been given a special privilege by being elected immediately on reaching this Parliament as Vice-Chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee of Public Accounts. [More…]
When policy items find their way from the rank and file in unions and sub-branches through our State conventions and Federal Conferences into the platforms of our Party, woe betide those of us who are the elected representatives in this Parliament if we ignore those policy items. [More…]
I believe that too many politicians, even those who were previously associated with local government, are apt to forget the needs of local government when they are elected to Parliament. [More…]
It is distressing to see the situation which has developed in the parliamentary procedures of this country whereby Ministers work so assiduously to avoid informing the Australian public, as it is their elected responsibility to do, on what developments have taken place in the administration of important national matters such as health, the economy - which is most important of all - primary industry, defence and the other subjects which the honourable member for Lalor mentioned when speaking to the amendment which is before the House. [More…]
Therefore, we as elected persons should leave it in decent silence to them! [More…]
All elected persons should be. [More…]
Our Federal system is being increasingly distorted by this argument that anything that goes on between Ministers, Commonwealth and State, is confidential to them and that nobody in any elected parliament can debate these matters until they come in cut and dried in the form of an agreement between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
The Agreement, in case the honourable member does not know, allows for a maximum storage capacity of 20% of the previous year’s total production, including excess sugar which means that something like 450,000 tons of excess sugar can be stored under maximum stocks under the provisions of the International Sugar Agreement which this Government elected under the alternative provisions relating to this particular clause. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party - the great Party that during the last 50 years has been elected to power on only 3 occasions - last year racked up its ninth loss in a row. [More…]
I know that there are no ladies and very few gentlemen here but I am quite sure that after the next election the former member for Kingston will be returned and a couple of other ladies will be elected to this side of the House and we will again be blessed with feminine company. [More…]
It amazes me how a man in his position, a man of so-called credibility, can go before a television audience and without blushing for one moment deny such an important thing, because the people of Queensland, if the Labor Party had been elected, would most definitely have lost what I understand to be and what most Queenslanders understand to be Queensland’s free hospital scheme. [More…]
Prior to being elected to this Parliament I was employed in the Taxation Branch in the technical field for some 28 years. [More…]
It was elected with a minority of votes. [More…]
In 1951 he was elected to the House of Representatives as the member for the Australian Capital Territory and he remained the member for this Territory for 19 years up to the time of his death. [More…]
Probably no member of this House of Representatives took his title so literally, was so single-mindedly the representative of the people who elected him, which certainly does not mean merely the people who voted for him. [More…]
In a city of officials he was the only elected one. [More…]
This was a refutation of the cynical assessment often made of the role which can be filled by elected persons and of the attitude which can be shown by the people to them. [More…]
I have ascertained that when he was elected in 1951 the population of the Australian Capital Territory was some 25,000 people and now it is more than 120,000 people. [More…]
It seems to me this is the crux of the third reading objections today because after all when a member is elected to represent an electorate which will be the subject of legislation and is then prevented by a quite capricious action of the Government from making his contribution and making a submission on 2 matters- [More…]
My question, which is addressed to the Minister for Labour and National Service, concerns what appears to be a growing tendency on the part of some militant unions to take the government of the country out of the hands of the constitutionally elected Government by an attempt through so called ‘black bans’ to circumvent the policy of the Government of the day. [More…]
Will the Government strongly stress to the Australian Council of Trade Unions that it is not prepared to have the government of the country taken out of its hands by a small unelected minority? [More…]
As to the opening part of the question, I think I should say very forthrightly that the constitutionally elected government would not be prepared to allow minorities to take control of the conduct of its business. [More…]
It was newly elected and due to the serious circumstances in the wool industry at the time it took a decision on a matter which had not been referred to it by industry organisations. [More…]
He said: ‘The Government was elected to govern and the Opposition cannot expect to force a situation where this cannot happen.’ [More…]
It has been proved over the years that that institution which best provides that order along with freedom for the citizen is the institution of Parliament, where decisions are made by a majority of those elected by a majority of the people of the country at regular intervals. [More…]
We regret what we did last night, but unless the Government changes its attitude towards this democratic institution and this democratically elected Opposition there will be more incidents like last night’s. [More…]
It elected you at a party meeting but once you became- [More…]
The simple truth of the matter is that the Opposition elected to make it a trial and all of the Opposition’s argument as far as the motion of dissent from your ruling is concerned turns on the question of relevance. [More…]
I say to the honourable member for Dawson that it is the Opposition which has elected to make this a trial and the Opposition is now hoist by its own petard. [More…]
The Government will not accept a situation in which the elected Government is prevented from performing its functions in Parliament and Parliament is prevented from proceeding with the carriage of legislation in the interests of the people. [More…]
The Deputy Prime Minister told the Liberal Party that, if the former Treasurer were elected to the Prime Ministership he would walk out on the Government. [More…]
He is elected by members of Parliament and it cannot be a controlled party vote. [More…]
Unless those who have been elected by the people of Australia to come into this place, speak their minds and take an intelligent part in the debates on our laws, even the Minister cannot expect us or anybody inside or outside the Parliament to have any respect for it. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, I was rather reluctant to enter the lists, if I can phrase it in that way, in this debate, but as a new member elected to this Parliament on 25th October last year I was then under the impression that I was coming to an honourable place to follow an honourable career, and to make an honourable contribution to contemporary society. [More…]
We are elected to this place by electors - in my own case I was elected by 38,500 electors. [More…]
But let them be honest enough to say that this is the proposition they want to put forward, because it will make it much simpler for all the elected members to return to their electorates where they can be doing useful work and not wasting the taxpayers’ money by sitting in this chamber just aborting the very work of the democratic processes of elected government. [More…]
I am appalled, Mr Speaker, by the tactics adopted by the man elected to be the Prime Minister of this country. [More…]
He was then chosen as a Senate candidate, was elected as a Country Party senator for New South Wales, and served for a period of 1 1 years in the Senate. [More…]
He served on the Central Executive of the Australian Country Party of New South Wales for over 20 years, having served as the State Chairman from 1957 to 1958 when he was elected to the Semite, where he served with distinction. [More…]
A national co-ordinating committee and provisional State convenors were elected at the meeting held on 25th November. [More…]
To be in parliamentary opposition to a democratically elected government must at times be galling and frustrating. [More…]
They seem to think that all the ordinary citizen has to do is to vote once every 2 or 3 years and then leave everything to the Constitution and to those who happen to be elected to Parliament. [More…]
Let me remind the House of the subjects dealt with by some of the newly elected honourable members opposite in their maiden and other speeches during the last few weeks. [More…]
This Government has been democratically elected on two occasions. [More…]
What the Minister has in mind is his responsibility to carry out the promise made by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton), first of all when he wah elected to that office and later in various speeches, including policy speeches, that the Government intends .to . [More…]
Six months have now transpired since the Government was elected with a mandate to initiate the proposals that are in the Bill. [More…]
In 1954 Mr Roger Dean, who is to be our Consul-General in New York, was elected on Communist Party preferences. [More…]
In 1955 Senator McCallum was elected on Jim Healy’s preferences. [More…]
Not one person has been charged with subversive activities since this Government was elected in 1949 but Dr Evatt, who was Attorney-General in the Chifley Government, prosecuted the Communists and. [More…]
Its elected representatives here have little opportunity to put forward cases that people want them to raise. [More…]
The whole purpose of any person being elected to the Parliament is to make constructive criticism. [More…]
Unfortunately from the moment I was elected to this House I have represented nothing but critically drought affected areas. [More…]
Its representatives in the original Labor federation were elected to observe these principles and abide by them. [More…]
To carry it further, are we not to sit if there is a meeting of a group of people which a member of the Country Party, or the Liberal Party or the Labor Party wishes to attend because he feels it more important to formulate their will than to come here as the elected representative and express their will? [More…]
The honourable member was elected to this Parliament on the same day as I and a number of other honourable members were elected. [More…]
A total of 160 members of the House of Assembly is elected by the European electorate of South Africa. [More…]
Elected Member nominated to Administrator’s Executive Council - $3,750 per annum. [More…]
But he has elected to put the enphasis upon business acumen. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Victorian State Executive of the Australian Labor Party last night issued a document stating that a Victorian Labor government, if elected on 30th May, would abolish State aid to independent schools in Victoria? [More…]
At present the various State governments are accepting the grants on these conditions but if the Victorian people elected a government which had the policy reported as being that of the State executive of the Australian Labor Party against State aid it would be within its rights to refuse to accept the grants! [More…]
But rather it is an intention to have gatherings to go beyond exercising that right and to infringe upon the rights of others, and to sit down in the streets and to bring to bear the wish to break a law because they dislike something which a government has done after being elected by a majority. [More…]
What is more, the executive of the organisation is elected before the annual meeting of contributors, so they are cut out of the voting. [More…]
At the meeting at which the contributors’ representatives were elected there were 51 voters remaining when the final vote was taken. [More…]
The prosecution then elected to proceed on the alternative charge of unlawfully striking Mr Tobaining and Mr Walters dismissed the assault charge. [More…]
President Thieu was elected by- [More…]
This Government, in effect, was elected in the election held in December 1949. [More…]
Nobody knows how these people are elected, the term of their office, the nature of their allowances or expenses and the nature of the people whom they represent. [More…]
Just by chance tonight the former leader of the Opposition, the right honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Calwell), told us that if, in 1960, the Labor Party had elected Mr Ward as its deputy leader the Party would have been elected to power in 1961. [More…]
I sympathise with the right honourable member because if the right man had been elected Deputy Leader of the Opposition at the time that he mentioned, he would not now be stuck in the position of having to follow a man for whom he has no respect and, I would suggest, nothing more than contempt. [More…]
Today it is the clear purpose of the Labor Party to destroy the objective of their predecessors by trying to prevent the Parliament that has been elected by a full franchise of all people, male and female, from operating. [More…]
We are not dictated to on policy by a mob of people not elected by the Australian public. [More…]
The Moratorium is really an attempt to coerce a democratically elected government by strikes by street violence and by so-called happenings. [More…]
The Minister for External Affairs (Mr McMahon) only recently returned from a trip there and he said he was interested and very pleased indeed to meet so many of the heads of various village councils who had been elected. [More…]
Certainly there are still some who have not been elected but have been nominated by the President. [More…]
We were elected as the Government for a 3-year period. [More…]
The same authors pointed out that the persons butchered were not by any means real landlords but were even elected as such from members of the Lao-Dong or Communist Peoples Party in that area because it was necessary to go through the motions of the same kind of annihilation of landlords as had been seen in China. [More…]
The Opposition’s present policy of pushing the Territory into self-government by 1972 if, of course, it gets into power - a big ‘if - and independence by 1976 represents a drastic change from the policy pursued by the right honourable member for Melbourne Our policy is 1 of political change sanctioned by the people of Papua and New Guinea through their elected House of Assembly. [More…]
On the contrary, it is the policy of the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong that there should be a coalition government in Vietnam not elected but forced upon the people by the North Vietnamese. [More…]
Apparently Mr Holding said - and so far he has not denied it - that if a Labor government were elected into power in Victoria he, as Premier, would parole those people who are now in prison in that State as a result of a breach of a Commonwealth law - the National Service Act. [More…]
At the outset I would like to say to the 250,000 or more Commonwealth public servants that they would have achieved their goal if a Labor government had been elected at the last Federal elections. [More…]
I suppose it is trying to save some of the Liberal members here suffering from this noise because it might mean that they will not again be elected to this Parliament. [More…]
One thing is that the Government must be more clearly answerable to the public through its elected parliamentary representatives and through the Parliament by doing these things that are the subject of discussion through regulations and so bringing them before the Parliament. [More…]
All I know is that the directors are elected by the shareholders and not by the contributors. [More…]
For example, nobody knows how directors are elected to the funds. [More…]
Looking at the list of directors of the Hospital Contribution Fund, I find that some are known to me and a number are reputable people, but some have evidently been selected for no other reason than that they are friends of Mr Turner and have been able to nominate him for membership of some organisations. [More…]
I invite him to study the names of the numerous doctors on those lists and to tell the Parliament why we are not entitled to know how these people are elected. [More…]
They do not know who is eligible for election or why people are elected. [More…]
Why does the Government not legislate so that at least some officers of the funds are elected by the vote of contributors? [More…]
-I would appreciate it if at some later stage the honourable member would tell the Minister how people are elected or appointed. [More…]
It was decided also to increase the student representation by appointing the President of the Students Representative Council ex-officio to the Council of the University in addition to the existing elected member that the students have. [More…]
It is true that in the recommendations of the Council there was a suggestion for a further elected member. [More…]
Governments are never elected to govern without due regard for the honoured place they occupy in the hearts and minds of the people who have sent them here. [More…]
I would rather that it be a more Socialist measure, and that its workings should conform more to the policies of a democratically elected government. [More…]
As the elected spokesman for the industry I have a right to advocate on their behalf to see that this protracted and frustrating delay is arrested now. [More…]
Any suggestion that this discussion with Ministers or that advice given by official members on the Committee had influenced elected members improperly was met by a speech by the Chairman of the Committee, Mr John Guise, in the House of Assembly on 9th June 1967 when he said: [More…]
As we all know, there has been constant pressure from expatriate members and official members of the House of Assembly to disparage and downgrade the role of political parties in an elected assembly. [More…]
By comparing the history of our legislatures in the Australian States in the last century with those in this century and by looking at the experience in other parts of the world, we know that it is the party system which makes an elected assembly work. [More…]
But the Minister for External Territories is the only Minister who is responsible to any elected body for actions such as these. [More…]
It must be admitted they humiliate the indigines, including elected indigenes. [More…]
This doubt is removed by amending clause 5 to ensure that a member will be paid his allowance until the day before the day of his reelection or if he is not re-elected the day before polling day. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, you would know, as you are the honourable member for Ryan - an electorate on the other side of the Brisbane River to my electorate - and share the same Commonwealth offices in Brisbane as I do, what a lousy deal the honourable member for Griffith has had since he was elected to Parliament in 1966. [More…]
I am quite certain that, when 1 was elected in 1966. the powers that be said: Well, he is a Liberal holding the seat of Griffith, he will be out in 3 years, so we do not need to worry about taking any notice of his complaints about his office’. [More…]
But it does mean that those selected and elected would be able to enjoy a fairly high standard of living if they do not enter Parliament. [More…]
In the United Stales Cabinet members can be appointed from among people outside Congress and not from members who are elected by the public. [More…]
That, after all, was why the Government was elected. [More…]
Mr Joshua was twice elected to this House, on each occasion as a member of my Party. [More…]
The term of office for which a director of a company can be elected is governed by the company’s articles of association. [More…]
Let me warn the farmers of this country that if the Opposition is elected to power and it implements the 1 vote 1 value policy, as was announced by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), we will see the elimination of at least 2 wheat seats in this country, thereby reducing the voice of the fanner further and putting him further into the wilderness. [More…]
We are elected here and have no say as to how this Department might intrude into people’s lives. [More…]
But from this point of view 1 am entitled to say on their behalf, as their representative, that they have never been consulted nor was any elected representative of theirs ever consulted on this matter. [More…]
It has been debated in the House of Assembly al length and 20 elected members spoke. [More…]
I personally have not been able to obtain positive information as to what actual results the committee has had and what countries have elected to bring in additional legislation, if necessary, to discourage and prevent, whenever possible, the hijacking of aircraft. [More…]
If they have not already elected to limit their future contributions under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1963-68 they may now contribute for the full increase in pensioner entitlement now provided or, alternatively, elect to limit their contributions to what they are already pay ng. [More…]
Is the Executive Committee elected by democratic procedures. [More…]
constitution of hospital boards comprised of three nominated and five elected members. [More…]
In 1 952 the then recently elected Liberal-Country Party Government set about destroying free hospitalisation and did not renew the agreement which had operated under the Labor Government. [More…]
We on this side of the House, along with many influential sections of the wool industry, believe that the AWIC would be a much better organisation if it were elected democratically by the wool growers, in the same way as the Parliament is elected by the people, rather than being appointed in the way it is. [More…]
The last plank of our policy was a fully elected AWIC. [More…]
They were chosen by the local Aboriginal councils and the delegates from country towns were elected by Aboriginal members of their communities to act as their representatives. [More…]
By the endorsement on the writ it is certified that Keppel Earl Enderby has been elected. [More…]
It is remarkable that when a senator is first elected or a member is first elected to a State house of parliament he is keen to go to these people and tell them that he intends to carry on with great crusading zeal to put everything right in these areas. [More…]
We have so-called democratic funds such as the Hospital Benefits Association of Victoria’ of which 4 of the 53 directors are elected by the contributors. [More…]
These funds are called democratic because, in this instance, 4 out of 53 directors are elected and the other 49 are not elected. [More…]
On the other hand, we have the so-called undemocratic organisations such as the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia and the Hospital Contributions Fund of Australia in which none of the directors are elected by the contributors. [More…]
The most democratic of them, the Hospital Benefits Association of Victoria, has 4 elected directors out of 53 directors. [More…]
With the Hospital Contributions Fund of New South Wales and the Medical Benefits Fund of New South Wales there is no pretence at their having elected members. [More…]
I cast no reflection on those directors of funds who have integrity, but nobody knows who is a Huxley and who is not because nobody knows them, nobody knows how they are elected, yet we are supposed to give them an open book so far as the investment of huge amounts of funds is concerned. [More…]
If the directors were elected by a vote of the people concerned and if we knew who they were, we would probably know their qualifications for the job and the ramifications of their investments before they stood for election. [More…]
between the elected representatives of countries comprising a significant proportion of the population of the globe . [More…]
was elected Chairman of the Association for 1969-70. [More…]
As last year in Trinidad we saw the importance of youth in revolt and the effect that this will have on the workings of parliament, so now we must see to what extent members of parliament are able to withstand pressure groups, moratorium marches, television programmes, opinion polls and the like to make certain that we maintain the role of the ballot box as the reason why members of parliament are elected to enter parliament, and that the pressures from the ballot box are the chief pressures to which they should react. [More…]
I believe that we were elected to serve the people of Australia in Canberra and we should not run away from Canberra as the honourable member for Newcastle (Mr Charles Jones) admits he does whenever and as soon as he can. [More…]
I think that Parliament takes precedence over these functions, much as we know their importance to us in getting elected. [More…]
I believe we are elected to Parliament to represent the people of this country in our electorate and, as national representatives, the people of Australia on the great national issues which are discussed here. [More…]
The honourable member for the Australian Capital Territory (Mr Enderby), who has just been elected to the Parliament, has realised what has hit him like an avalanche. [More…]
I think it was Duncan Sandys who once said that he was elected by the constituents of Streatham, if that was the electorate, to represent them in Parliament, not to represent the Parliament in Streatham. [More…]
Both views relate to the proper work of people elected to this place, and therefore the point made by the Minister that the system now proposed will make the most efficient use of the time, whether it is here or there, is the best point that has been made in this whole debate. [More…]
They have said that a member is elected to represent, in this Parliament, the people of his electorate. [More…]
I think it is another indication of a willingness on the part of those who support the Opposition to see that nonelected persons outside the Parliament direct or influence elected persons inside the Parliament who are charged with responsibility for the economy of this country. [More…]
Accordingly I believe that it would be proper to have an even number elected each time for each Territory. [More…]
Accordingly the Bill provides that both senators for each Territory should be elected every time there is a general election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
If it is suggested that there may not be an election for the House of Representatives at the same time as there must be an election for half of the Senate at some time during this present financial year T would very happily accept an amendment to provide that the first 2 senators for each of the Territories should be elected at the first election for either House. [More…]
He has refused to rise in his place and say a few words such as those he uttered from his electoral platform about a matter which affects the people of the Northern Territory who elected him to sit as their representative in this Parliament. [More…]
I am not concerned very much about the first 2 points because I could not possibly imagine, although it would be a terrible thing if it did happen, a Speaker being elected in circumstances in which there was not at least a quorum present. [More…]
1 have not had time to check his statement, but, as far as my memory serves me, I should think that more than that number of honourable members would be present in the chamber when the Speaker and the Chairman of Committees are elected. [More…]
We all know or ought to know that only about 50% of the elected members in the House of Commons can crowd into the place. [More…]
I was elected with his Government in 1943. [More…]
To call the national strike apparently without even getting a resolution passed by the Australian Council of Trade Unions saying there should be a national strike unquestionably shows an approach to a Government of this country and to the rights of citizens in this country which rides completely roughshod over the concept of elected members of the public coming to this House and deciding economic and other policies. [More…]
At the end of 1969 there were over 2’,000 villages and nearly 10,000 hamlets which had elected administrations and only 90 villages and 330 hamlets which had appointed administrations. [More…]
Elected governments have been established at the national level. [More…]
But what the Vietnamese have achieved in establishing an elected regime at the national level and at the village and hamlet levels is something for which they deserve some credit. [More…]
The whole democratic system of government is based on the fact that although there are differences of opinion within a community, free elections are held, a government is elected by the majority and the laws that the Parliament passes prevail. [More…]
Now the left wing of the unions with the left-wing leader, Mr Hawke, and the left-wing-dominated Australian Labor Party with Mr Whitlam as its voice, all combine, forcefully, by demonstrations outside, which on occasions are quite violent, by strikes and threats of strikes, to defy elected government and defy the laws of Parliament. [More…]
The first was that there should be a coalition government, not elected by the people of South Vietnam but determined by the Communists themselves. [More…]
I believe that it is only in this area that elected representatives of the people are able to look at the kind of guidelines that are brought forward for our programmes. [More…]
I could summarise what I have to say in this sentence: Are we going to hand over responsibility to some other body, no matter how competent, how fair or how celebrated they may be in the public eye, just because we think that this is fairer and more democratic - and principally because they are not elected by the people of Australia? [More…]
In this very Parliament, which is the premier law making authority in the land, we witnessed not only blatant defiance of constitutional law and order and elected authority by one misguided individual, but we saw the leader of a once great democratic Party stand up and incite his Party to anarchy. [More…]
The time has come when the elected Government must take a firm stand against these law breakers. [More…]
They of course have always bitterly opposed the decisions of the elected leaders of rural industries - not only the experienced leaders of the wheat industry but the leaders of practically every other rural industry. [More…]
His prime objective is to destroy this elected government of the people by using every device available - by using Mr Hawke and the left wing of the trade union movement and by using strike action for political purposes. [More…]
In concluding my remarks on the rural section I point out that the essential difference between the Government’s policy and the Opposition’s policy is that the Government endeavours to implement the policy of the primary producers expressed through their elected representatives, while the Opposition in a blatant vote catching exercise supports generally the dissentient minority without regard to the welfare of the industry and those engaged in it. [More…]
If we can do our job as the elected representatives of this country none of us at any time ought to be hesitant or unable to acquit ourselves in this medium. [More…]
He said that this Government had a mandate from the people of Australia because it was elected by the majority of the people. [More…]
Of course, the fact is that this gentleman was elected on Communist Party preferences and his return meant the return of the Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
The Parliament which was elected at the general election met last November at some considerable waste of money to the Commonwealth, because it quickly and swiftly went into recess to lick its wounds until 3rd March of this year. [More…]
This was all deception on the part of the Government which sought to get itself re-elected on subterfuge, a tissue of lies and untruths. [More…]
It is not elected by the Australian Labor Party branches. [More…]
The Trade Union Defence Council in Victoria, which is made up of Paisleyites - that is a new term - Muscovites and Maoists, can get a special executive elected. [More…]
He mentioned demonstrations in the streets and foreign ideologies, and he made some derogatory references to newly elected members of the Australian Labor Party in this House. [More…]
I have seen conditions as a result of collecting postal votes and from many other contacts before I was elected to Parliament and since. [More…]
If the Australian Labor Party had been elected last October pensioners would have received, as promised, a minimum pension increase last November of $1 a week. [More…]
It is the result of a decision made by a properly elected government. [More…]
It is merely a statement by an elected government to show its programme for the year - what it intends to do and how it proposes to get the money to carry out that programme. [More…]
The philosophy of the Vietnam Moratorium is to ignore the fact that in this Parliament are members who are elected to come here to debate, put issues, resist issues and vote on them. [More…]
It is entirely wrong that responsible, elected bodies charged with preserving democracy should take steps which are designed clearly to intimidate and to prevent the expression of those rights within the community! [More…]
My Leader when speaking at the Sydney Town Hall during the last general election campaign said that if Labor were elected, by the end of June 1970 every Australian serviceman would be out of Vietnam. [More…]
But primarily it is the function of the elected government to keep the House. [More…]
Let honourable members get out on the hustings at election time and tell the people from whom they expect support that of a total of 125 elected members if 25 members vote in a division a simple majority of those who vote will suffice for an affirmative decision. [More…]
Under the terms of the Bill now before us, decisions of this Parliament can be made and Bills can be passed with only a very small minority of the elected members of this Parliament being present and at the same time this Government is attempting te give such decisions an air of legality. [More…]
We have been shown the great spectre of a handful of men who have been elected to this place passing important legislation. [More…]
What we have before us is a Bill which seeks to reduce from one-third to one-fifth the proportion of elected members who shall constitute a quorum because, by trial and error and by experience the House has found that it is inconvenient to have quorums called, to have bells rung and to have members coming into the chamber to make up the present quorum of one-third. [More…]
No government should be proud to admit that it fixes the salary of the elected represenative of the people in this Parliament at a level which must, by the Government’s own definition, be regarded as a low income. [More…]
The Parliament is not the Cabinet; the Parliament is basically the back benchers of this place from whom are elected the members of the Cabinet. [More…]
I atn of the opinion that a parliament is only as good <is the members who are elected to it, who sit in the Parliament, who speak on different subjects and who meet in the Party rooms. [More…]
I refer to section 74 of the Income Tax Assessment Act, which provides that expenditure incurred in the year of income by a taxpayer on being elected as a member, or in contesting an election for membership, of the Federal Parliament or of the Parliament of a State shall be an allowable taxation deduction. [More…]
The question that arises is how can these demands be resisted or met by us as the people’s elected representatives? [More…]
Constitutionally in Australia an elected government of whatever political persuasion has unlimited and unfettered powers of monetary and fiscal policy. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition did not have a word to say about the North Vietnamese Communists who had invaded Cambodia and opposed the duly elected Cambodian Government. [More…]
Lon Nol had been elected by National Assembly in August. [More…]
Cheng Heng, now Head of State, has been elected chairman, National Assembly, defeating Sihanouk nominee. [More…]
In fact an election was held shortly before I arrived on the island, and 9 Communists were elected to a parliament of 35. [More…]
Is he suggesting that it was a colossal mistake for the people of the country to overthrow his regime by constitutional means, by unanimous decision of their elected legislature. [More…]
In case there is a sneer about the way the members of that legislature were elected, let me remind honourable members that they were appointed under Sihanouk in the days of his regime and they were unanimous in their decision that he should be ousted from office. [More…]
One of the difficulties confronting the Labor Party, because of the way it is treated by the media, is the manner in which its policy is thrashed out in public by people who are democratically elected by the Party’s organisations in the various States. [More…]
Whichever Party had been elected at the last election, neither would have had a mandate to increase income taxation, and the only way any government could have increased the pensions in these circumstances would have been by cutting down on some other vital sector of the economy. [More…]
In the campaign preceding the elections of 1949 the Liberal and Country Party promised, if elected, to grant child endowment in respect of the first child. [More…]
As a matter of fact, it was not until 4 years after they were elected to office that they increased the permissible income from what it was under Labor, in 1949 a single pensioner could have an income of $3 a week without it affecting his pension, and it was not increased until October 1953 when it went to $4 a week, and today, almost 20 years later, it has reached only $10 a week. [More…]
The basis on which financial assistance will be provided to Papua and New Guinea this year has been changed to accord with the recent arrangements to transfer greater responsibility and control over expenditures to elected Ministerial Members and the Administrator’s Executive Council in the Territory. [More…]
He knows as well as anyone else that tonight he cast a slur on the South Australian police force when he said that it would not perhaps take any notice of the Government which has been elected to power by the majority of the people in that State. [More…]
I hope that the honourable member is not trying to sow seeds of discord between the elected Government of South Australia and the police force of that State. [More…]
The people were betrayed because these men had promised that if they were elected to government they would ensure that the value of the currency was restored and maintained. [More…]
Twenty-eight years later, we have another emissary, this time of a recently elected British Government, coming to Australia and telling us in no uncertain terms that the moment of truth has arrived, that we are now mature, that we are standing on our own, that we are big boys and that we are well and truly able to fend for ourselves. [More…]
By the endorsement on the writ it is certified that Anthony Allan Staley has been elected. [More…]
The amendment moved by the Opposition once again demonstrates the length to which the Opposition would be prepared to go if elected to office to usurp absolutely the sovereign rights of the States. [More…]
Addressing several thousand antiAdministration Mataungan Association Tolai people, he commended the Mataungans for their nationalistic fervour in their opposition to the duly elected Gazelle MultiRacial Council. [More…]
The customer demands efficiency, accountability and satisfaction, and is able to impose his will as muchthroughtheagencyofaprivate insurance scheme, as through the voice of his elected government. [More…]
In my opinion there is no more important issue confronting this Parliament and this country because it is a question of the future of government, the future of authority and the future standing of a government in Australia, whether it be Liberal, Labor or anything else, which has been elected by democratic processes. [More…]
On every corner, on every doorstep, people were rising against certain legislation, irrespective of the law or the will of the people as expressed by their elected representatives. [More…]
I suppose one could go through the history books and discover many instances of individuals who have advocated anarchy or mutiny or treason, but I would say that this surely must be the first time in history when, in a democratic country, the leader of a party which regards itself as close to being in a position to form a Government elected by democratic process has advocated a course of disobedience of and disregard for the law. [More…]
The Australian people have a long history of supporting and accepting the laws made by the democratically elected Government of the country. [More…]
Has the attention of the right hon.urable gentleman been drawn to the resolution which was carried unanimously at a recent meeting of the Asian Parliamentarians Union, at which nearly all the freely elected governments in the vicinity of South Vietnam were represented, opposing any reduction of United States or United Nations defence forces in the Asian and Pacific region unless carried out with prior consultation with the governments concerned and planned so as not to impair regional or national defence capabilities? [More…]
What is required in New South Wales is an elected co-ordinating advisory body to supersede the bureaucratic State Planning Authority of New South Wales which has caused distress, frustration and confusion wherever its tentacles have stretched out. [More…]
Many problems are posed by these diverse subjects which are a matter of serious concern as an accounting problem and also in terms of efficiency, as well as posing the problem of how such functions should be made accountable to representatives who are elected and responsible to the people of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Yet under the first past the post system candidate A would be elected with a small minority of 40 per cent of the votes. [More…]
I might add that the majority of elected members never support the Government, the Minister or myself but, being a Territorian, I believe I should speak about these allowances. [More…]
I know that the majority of elected members do not support me but I hope that the Government will disregard this because it is possible that they will only be members temporarily and in the future we may get some pretty genuine and sincere representation, especially if the increases I suggest are provided. [More…]
After all, the honourable member for Mallee has only to tot up a total of 19,914 votes and he is elected. [More…]
The honourable member for Wills has to run up a total of 25,000 votes to be elected. [More…]
This Government - the lawfully elected Government of this state - has maintained and stated that it believes that national service is essential in the national interest to maintain the Army at the level required now and in the future, and the majority of the Australian community would appear to share this view. [More…]
Young men of the 25 years to 40 years age group who have come into this Parliament have been elected on tickets favouring the perpetuation of the war in Vietnam and on the continuation of the national service system. [More…]
The Whyalla Town Commission consisted of 4 nominees of BHP, 4 elected members and an independent chairman. [More…]
The amendment justly indicts this Government for its blatant and deliberate rejection of the people’s right, either direct or through their elected representatives, to a parliamentary or public inquiry or debate. [More…]
The University Council has approved the request of students and recommended to the Government that two elected undergraduates and the President of the Students’ Association be members of that Council. [More…]
The workload involved, the representation required, and the acknowledged necessity for continuity at Council level, demand that at least two elected undergraduates in addition to the President of the Students’ Association, represent the Student Body on the Council. [More…]
The University Council has approved the request of students and recommended to the Government that two elected undergraduates and the President of the Students’ Association be members of that Council. [More…]
The workload involved, the representation required, and the acknowledged necessity for continuity at Council level, demand that at least two elected undergraduates in addition to the President of the Students’ Association, represent the Student Body on the Council. [More…]
lt is history now that when the Hall Liberal Government was elected in 1968 one of the first things it did was to ease Mr Currie, that wellqualified director, out of that job and replace him with someone else who had about 3 other important jobs as well Apparently the Hall Government believed that the job of diversifying and developing South Australian industry could be left to somebody who had a lot of other jobs - perhaps he could do that work on a Wednesday afternoon instead of playing golf. [More…]
Austria, United Kingdom, United States of America and Canada: The visit to Austria was to attend 2 meetings of the Board of Governors and the Annual General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at which Sir Philip was elected Chairman of the Board for the forthcoming year. [More…]
The term ‘public affairs of the Territory’ is used in this context to identify those matters for which Papua and New Guinea public servants are responsible ultimately to the elected members of the Papua and New Guinea House of Assembly or of the Australian Parliament. [More…]
It is a sheer lack of consistency, lt is the hypocrisy of members ot a part)’ who have their policy dictated to them by people not elected by the Australian people that makes a farce of this situation. [More…]
It is farcical for honourable members opposite to act as minions obeying the dictates of people who are not elected. [More…]
The Bill therefore provides for two students to be elected to the Council by the student body and for the Council, should it wish, to arrange for separate representation of part-time or full time students. [More…]
Normally, as the secretary of a trade union he ought to be concerned only with the wages and working conditions of his members, but he and the members of his union have shown, great compassion for people who are quite incapable of coping with the problems of the world around them, people who are incapable of putting a case to this Parliament except through people who are elected to sit here. [More…]
Ideally in a democracy information concerning the activities of Government and policy decisions should be open to all so that the people can know the changing nature of their rights and privileges as decided by their elected representatives, so that an informed and adequate public debate can take place on policy issues and so that checks and balances are available on the activities of governments. [More…]
Sad to relate, the Liberal and Country Parties did not abolish it immediately after they were elected to office in New South Wales. [More…]
I instance these matters because I believe they show the attempts which are being made to take the decisions regarding the defence of this country out of the hands of the duly elected Government. [More…]
We believe that matters affecting the defence of this country should be made by the duly elected Government with the guidance of its defence experts, and not by mobs of wharfies and students demonstrating in the streets. [More…]
We have heard all sorts of calls to arms: Churchilliantype phrases about what the Russians atc doing in the world: reference to the terrible situation that is facing the poor little Government of Rhodesia; cries of violence in the street and political power being taken out of the hands of the duly elected representatives of Australia and reference to our refusal to recognise Communist China and a refusal to recognise that Australia should disengage from the war in Vietnam. [More…]
What sort of a world is it in which they live where everybody is working to overthrow the duly elected Government of Australia? [More…]
47 elected not to do so. [More…]
This must be the only assembly in the world where a newly elected Government has introduced a defence statement before a foreign affairs statement. [More…]
I am referring to the distinct possibility of the break-up of the Commonwealth of Nations brought about by the proposed sale of naval equipment to South Africa by the recently elected Conservative [More…]
No-one is going to tell me that that is not the true position, that the Labor Party and its policies are not controlled by people not elected by the taxpayers of Australia. [More…]
Those who are elected to the Senate as a result of the forthcoming election will not take their places in the Senate until 1st July 1971. [More…]
A few weeks ago 1 asked the Minister a question on this matter and in his reply he appeared to blame the newly elected South Austraiian Labor Government for the delay that. [More…]
Briefly, the conference proposed the setting up of an elected body representing Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders on a regional basis to take over the administration of their affairs, their welfare and also the disposal of government finance. [More…]
Whatever happens in the forthcoming Senate election, those people elected will not take their seats until 1st July 1971, and the Government will be writing another Budget by that time. [More…]
Now South Australia has elected to make a partial return to the shelter of the Grants Commission umbrella. [More…]
A fully elected Australian Wool Industry Conference to represent all wool producing areas of Australia. [More…]
As I have said in this chamber time and time again, it is not a democratically elected body representing the bona fide woolgrowers of Australia. [More…]
The Council of the Australian National University has 2 members of the Senate, elected by the Senate, within its composition and, in a proposed amendment, we will attempt to change the composition of the Council of the College of Advanced Education in the same way. [More…]
In addition to that we want to provide for 3 representatives of the community of the Australian Capital Territory to be elected in a manner to be prescribed. [More…]
Now I shall have a look at the changes which the Government itself proposes, lt proposes that there shall be 2 students to be elected to the Council by the student body, for the Council to be empowered to arrange, if it wishes, for separate representation of part time and full time students, and because it is providing for the representation of students it lowers the age of membership of the Council from 21 years to 18 years. [More…]
But I could well imagine that members of the staff who may be very competent to be on the Council but who are not tremendously popular with the students could find themselves not elected. [More…]
I believe it would not be terribly difficult to have a person elected by the local community. [More…]
In this city there is great interest in representation: It seems to me that if we can put members of this House on the Council of the College of Advanced Education that Council will benefit because, as the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) said, the Council will take to it members of this House, properly elected by this House, who will bring with them a width of experience and knowledge from whatever particular field they come. [More…]
three members of the teaching staff of the College elected by that teaching staff; [More…]
two students of the College elected by the students of the College; [More…]
before paragraph (a) insert the following paragraphs: “(aa) two senators elected by the Senate; (ab) two members of the House of Representatives elected by that House;”. [More…]
On the other hand the United States with its Congressional system recognises very much the importance of having elected representatives of the people on all sorts of bodies determining policy, whether it is in regard to education, defence or anything else, and I do not believe that the trend in the Westminster system of Parliament is a healthy one. [More…]
), after paragraph (b) insert the following paragraph: (ba) three representatives of the community of the Australian Capital Territory elected in a manner to be prescribed;’ [More…]
These people are elected specifically because of their known professional skills and their background. [More…]
I suppose there are a number of organisations that are elected by the community. [More…]
Insofar as I am a shadow Minister for Education and Science, let me say that if I have authority and if there were a change of Government, there would be an elected local authority here governing education here and set up as a model. [More…]
But I certainly believe that education in the Australian Capital Territory should be governed by a body elected by the people of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
I have not suggested that the entire Council should be elected. [More…]
But I have suggested that it should contain an elected element. [More…]
Surely the principles that we apply to ministerial representatives as the representatives of elected people should be applied in this instance also. [More…]
quite necessary that we should validate this Bill because I understand that the newly elected member for Chisholm (Mr Staley) may be in some difficulty with his back salary. [More…]
This practice was varied in 1957, when the then Minister for Labour and National Service, the late Mr Harold Holt, was included as a delegate because it was known that it was likely that he would be elected President of the Conference, and it is usual for the President of the Conference to be appointed from delegates. [More…]
He was, in fact, elected President. [More…]
But having said that, I realise that the Government has been elected and re-elected on the proposition that it supports conscription, that it supports national service, and I think that we in the Opposition have to make the National Service Act as pleasant as possible from the point of view of the people who are affected. [More…]
Only the honourable member for Fisher (Mr Adermann), who is unavoidably absent, and the Leader of my Party, Mr McEwen, were in this House when I was elected on 9th February 1946. [More…]
He, in 1958, was appointed to the Senate to fill a casual vacancy and was elected at the general elections held later that year. [More…]
He was re-elected in 1964 and his term in the Senate was due to expire next June. [More…]
I remind him that last year the Government said that it was setting up a joint study group consisting of Commonwealth officials and elected members of the Legislative Council of the Northern Territory to examine in detail the possibility of increasing the Tole of elected members in the administration of State-like activities in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I am sure that the honourable member for the Northern Territory will be pleased to know that I have been advised today by the Administrator of the Northern Territory that the elected members of the Legislative Council have nominated 5 representatives to meet Commonwealth officers to begin discussions. [More…]
I am sure that the elected members of the Northern Territory Legislative Council and the Commonwealth Government will do everything possible to have a comprehensive study made of the problem. [More…]
It should be remembered that the person holding the position of President of the Students Association is, in fact, elected to that position, so in one sense the elected student representative membership has been increased to two. [More…]
This is the picture in Australia and I think that this amendment to the Act in fact very greatly liberalises the position in the Australian National University, not only in increasing the number of student representatives from 1 to 2 but also in reducing the age from 21 years to 18 years, in providing that graduates do not have to be of 2. years standing but may be elected immediately on graduation and so on. [More…]
The number of students who accepted scholarships in the years 1958-1970 is as follows: (In a small number of cases, a few students who accepted awards in the years shown elected to defer their scholarship and to commence studies in the following year.) [More…]
He came into this chamber somewhat briefly, cast a glance along the front benches, went a mile up the road and addressed the Young Liberal gathering and said that if he were in office again or if he were to be elected to this Federal House he would suggest that Cabinet ought to be drawn from the public. [More…]
It is not elected by the people - the general public: - and it is about time this laissez-faire Government that has been sitting in power for over 20 years and which blames everybody but itself every time a crisis occurs, faced up to its responsibilities. [More…]
When he was first elected to this place he look months to come into the Parliament. [More…]
Prior to the suspension of the sitting I pointed out how the sugar industry is a model of socialisation - that is, not national ownership, not national dictation, but control by the people involved, the consumers and their elected representatives co-operating with the producers for the welfare of society as a whole - and how it is a model for all other industries to follow. [More…]
Let us not forget that this Government, which is elected by the people, is charged with the responsibility of maintaining real value in the economy. [More…]
It is entitled, through its elected representatives, or through people answerable to those representatives, to define what is harmful to itself as a community. [More…]
But it is also true, as the Minister pointed out in his statement, that if a immunity believes that the circulation of certain material is objectionable to itself as a community, it has the right, through its democratically elected government to protect itself. [More…]
I take- the view that we as the elected members of- this Parliament are, in fact, a cross-section of the people and that we should reflect in this place the views of the community ‘and therefore the attitudes of the community. [More…]
Most parents impose standards for their children - standards of action and standards relating to the material which they can see, read or hear - and I believe most parents would like their elected represen-tatives to help them to maintain these community standards. [More…]
Calls upon the administering Power to prescribe, in consultation with freely elected representatives of the people, a specific time-table for the free exercise by the people of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea oftheir right to self- determination and independence, and to report to the Trusteeship Council and to the Special Committee on the action taken in that regard; [More…]
There are in all 12 members of the Board of Directors elected from the 33 members of the company. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, I remind you of the fact that I was elected to this House on 9th February 1946. [More…]
His Excellency the Governor-General commissioned me, as the newly elected Leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party to form a Ministry. [More…]
The point that I want to make is that under section 28 of the Commonwealth Constitution - and I would have thought that the honourable gentleman bad some knowledge of constitutional practice - members are elected to Parliament for 3 years. [More…]
Or if the honour able gentleman wants to go back to 1922 and have a look at the circumstances in which a great Labor leader was then associated - that is the period in 1922 when Mr Hughes was elected Leader of the Nationalist Party - he will see that when Mr Hughes came to the House he found that he did not have the support of the Nationalist and Country Parties and, consequently, he had to seek an audience with the Governor-General and ask that a new leader be chosen. [More…]
In the party room immediately after I was elected as Leader of the Party there was a unanimous vote from the Party expressing confidence in me and wishing me well as Prime Minister. [More…]
In Western Australia, where a Labor Government was recently elected, Mr Joe Chamberlain, the Svengali of the Labor Party, is still at loggerheads with the Premier of that State. [More…]
One whom they elected has been cut down. [More…]
Is the Labor Party trying to say now that if a Prime Minister other than Mr Gorton had been elected then, a new general election would have been needed to give that new Prime Minister a mandate? [More…]
For more than 50 years out of the last 70 years, the people of Australia have elected to office governments espousing the kinds of policies and philosophies shared by the Liberal and the Country Parties. [More…]
This Government was elected by the people because of the policies and principles for which it stands. [More…]
We have elected a new Prime Minister. [More…]
I am not saying anything derogatory about any other man in this place, but 1 venture to suggest that the Prime Minister we have elected is a man of outstanding capacity who is capable of guiding the economic affairs of this country. [More…]
I know of 33 members of the Liberal Party who told his predecessor 5 minutes before the Prime Minister was elected that the predecessor had their confidence. [More…]
Of course, every time there is an election each individual is elected as the representative of his constituency. [More…]
Individually elected Liberal Party members in choosing the present Prime Minister as their Leader were exercising the rights and privileges accorded to them by their electors, and it is utter poppycock to deny them these rights when so much is said of the necessity for parliamentarians to assert their rights within this place. [More…]
Individual members of the Liberal Party and of the Country Party retain their right to elect their officers and it is because they are elected as representatives by their constituencies that they have that right throughout the duration of the Parliament. [More…]
I oppose this motion for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that [ consider the time taken in debating it is a colossal waste of valuable time ‘ which could be better employed in getting on with the business of government which is the purpose for which all members of this Parliament have been elected. [More…]
Let me turn to the person the Liberal Party has elected as the Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]
I emphasise the fact that the Liberal Party has elected the new Prime Minister. [More…]
Firstly, a new Leader of the Liberal Party has been elected, and he is now the Prime Minister. [More…]
As to the new Leader who has been elected by the Liberal Parly, he has had more than 20 years experience in more portfolios than the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) today cared to take the time to recite. [More…]
The Constitution provides that a parliament is elected for a 3-year term. [More…]
Cruising around his mind is the aphorism ‘Governments get defeated - Oppositions don’t get elected’. [More…]
We stand committed to the development of this nation in every way and to the welfare of the people whom we were elected to serve. [More…]
We, the Liberal Party with our Australian Country Party colleagues, were elected to do this and, together, do it we will. [More…]
It is quite obvious that the Government, as the elected representatives of the people of Australia, has a responsibility to tell the Parliament, the wool growers and the taxpayers what it intends to do to save and to salvage this great Australian industry. [More…]
Unfortunately, local government in South Australia is elected on a property franchise, and the elected councillors consequently are concerned only with the defence and interests of property. [More…]
I hope that the South Australian Labor Government will be successful in its current efforts to introduce adult franchise and that a council will be elected to serve the interests of people rather than of property. [More…]
Can he say that, in his opinion, it should be fully elected, that it should have the right to govern and that it at least should have the right to the same ministerial responsibility as is given to some of the members of the New Guinea House of Assembly who have ministerial responsi bility? [More…]
When all is said and done he is only one of many, the voice of a Ministry elected on a spoils-to-the-victor basis, and if he does not obey the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) in his every whim, irrespective of the effects on our rights in this Parliament, honourable members know as well as I do that he will be replaced almost overnight. [More…]
People in a democracy are reluctant to think that their elected government is party to lies and deception, particularly in matters involving the Armed Forces and the nation’s security. [More…]
If the member elected by defect or irregularity were the chairman of the Committee his deputy could then act as chairman. [More…]
Negotiations have been continuing in the last month or 6 weeks between officers of the Department of Primary Industry, executive officers and elected officers of the ADFA and me. [More…]
The members of that organisation consist entirely of elected representatives of producers and they will control 6 out of the 11 members on the Committee who will determine the allocation of research projects. [More…]
The Government was elected by the people of Australia on its promise to do something about pollution. [More…]
In the case of a member of the Legislative Council for the Northern Territory, if he were elected to the Commonwealth Parliament it is possible, though not certain, that he would need to resign from the Legislative Council to take his place in this Parliament. [More…]
Although no specific debarment is included in the existing law, the Government believes it was never intended that a person should have the right to such dual nomination and this is borne out by the fact that when consenting to a nomination and to act if elected, the person nominated must declare that he is qualified under the Constitution and the laws of the Commonwealth to be elected as a senator, or as a member of the House of Representatives, as the case may be. [More…]
Firstly, one of the first things that the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) said when he was elected to office was that he would pay regard to and add to the rights of private members. [More…]
Nothing is more vital to the working of a democracy than the mechanism by which the parliament is elected. [More…]
This Bill seeks to preserve the basis of democratic elections by ensuring that those elected individually or as a government shall reflect the wishes of the majority. [More…]
Clauses 10, 11 and 12 amend sections 133, 136 and 181a of the principal Act, being complementary to the introduction of first past the post voting under clause 9, and provide for informal votes, for the candidate with the highest number of votes to be elected and for the casting vote of the divisional returning officer to be made in the event of candidates receiving an equal number of votes. [More…]
From 1901 until 1918 representatives to the Australian Parliament were elected by the simplest of all methods, namely, the first past the post system. [More…]
It was also said that it would give an absolute majority to the candidate elected. [More…]
The principal arguments advanced in support of preferential voting are, firstly, that it ensures that only a candidate who polls a majority of votes - that is more than 50 per cent - is elected, thus reflecting the majority view and, secondly, that it gives a voter the exercise of a preference or second choice on the basis that voters are concerned with who will actually win, even if their first choice is rejected. [More…]
This happened when the Communist Party preferences elected the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) in the 1961 election. [More…]
It is true to say that candidates and even governments are elected by this type of voter. [More…]
For those who say that preferential voting is the only safeguard against the election of minority government, we have to accept the argument that every government elected between 1901 and 1918 in Australia came under this category. [More…]
‘First past the post’ voting is not the be all and end all of democratic elections, but by the introduction of one-vote-one-value and the introduction of this system it is reasonable to assume that governments elected will be those chosen by the majority and not, as Malcolm McKerras described this Government, as ‘a second preference government’. [More…]
In fact, from long experience I know that in many cases none of them could have been elected except under that method. [More…]
Let us look briefly at the record of achievement that has occurred under this Government within the present electoral system which has elected consistently for 22 years a government that has given stable government to the country and allowed for tremendous growth and development. [More…]
Leaving that aside, I believe that when people, at the ballot box, clearly vote for a Party and give that Party a clear majority that is the Party that is entitled to be elected to office. [More…]
I can recall two occasions in Queensland when the Labor Party was elected on gerrymandered boundaries when it ought not to have been elected. [More…]
This Government was re-elected with the assistance of Democratic Labor Party preferences. [More…]
In 1957 the Country Party-Liberal Party Coalition was elected with 43.22 per cent of the votes. [More…]
In 1960 it was re-elected with 43.52 per cent of the votes under electoral gerrymanders that still stand. [More…]
It is what we will give effect to in the legislature when we are elected to government and we are quite proud to make a clear and unambiguous statement to the people of Australia of the principles that underlie this Bill. [More…]
Let us always remember that we are members of a Parliament that is democratically elected to act in the best interests of the majority of all Australians. [More…]
He does not tell the House that it was on that promise and several other promises that his Parly was elected. [More…]
After all, it was way back in 1949, as 1 just said, that the Government parties, under the leadership of Mr Menzies, as he then was, told the people that, if elected, they would take steps immediately to abolish the means test. [More…]
We had the situation in this House the other week of a Prime Minister, newly elected by 30-odd people of this country, stand at the dispatch box, mark you, and fumble his speech in the time that he was allowed by the forms of the House. [More…]
On 26th March the President made the statement that his aim was to restore parliamentary and democratic government to the elected representatives of East Pakistan and West Pakistan as soon as this proved practicable. [More…]
If any single body can undertake a job of this kind and succeed it will be only because the parliaments of Australia have been prepared to subside their own interests, their own elected duties and loyalties, to serve the political whim of the Labor Party. [More…]
Obviously this is what the Labor Party wants, because the Leader of the Opposition made the point that if Labor were elected to power it would negotiate a new financial agreement directly with local government, that is, from central government to local government. [More…]
He was elected Leader of the Australian Country Party became heir apparent as Deputy Prime Minister, and demanded and got the portfolio of Trade and Industry. [More…]
Then it was decided to pass a law to prevent him from taking part in that State’s legislature if he was elected to it. [More…]
He was elected to the State legislature of Georgia and his opponents then said that because he had agitated in the past - and the past was only 1966 - he was no longer eligible to become a legislator. [More…]
One wonders on occasions such as this how a person such as the honourable member for Boothby (Mr McLeay) happened to be elected to an Australian Parliament. [More…]
Those in authority are normally elected to office by a majority of the people or are selected or appointed by those who are elected. [More…]
I well remember being in the Harcourt area a week or two before the honourable member was elected. [More…]
I have no doubt, as one who has travelled an enormous amount in the course of the last 18 months, that the Governments of the smaller countries of South East Asia - and for that matter of Asia as a whole - which want to be independent would shudder at the thought that there was the prospect of the Labor Party being elected as the government of this great country of ours. [More…]
Mr Speaker, you were elected to your exalted office on 21st February 1967. [More…]
Honourable members are elected by constituents to come to this place, presumably to behave themselves as grown up human beings with a sense of responsibility. [More…]
One difficulty is that under the provisions of the Acts Interpretation Act certain offences could not be indictable offences and to give a defendant the option of determining whether he should be dealt with summarily would mean that he could not be tried in any way if he elected not to be so dealt with. [More…]
Further, are not the commercial terms laid down to the democratically elected Government of Ceylon more onerous than those extended to Malaysia and Singapore in normal arms and ammunition supply transactions and so stringent as to make it unlikely that Ceylon can fulfil them and so obtain any assistance from Australia? [More…]
But I repeat that we are elected to this place by our constituents, to earn our money by representing our electors in this Parliament as much as possible. [More…]
These people present submissions to him so that he may put a more concise case to the body to which he has been elected. [More…]
It was only in his last quarterly report that the Chairman of Western Mining Corporation pointed out that supply had overtaken demand, and he was happy that his company had elected to sell in the controlled market rather than take a chance on free trade. [More…]
What we need to do now is to continue to prove that we are worthy of this country and of the people who have elected us. [More…]
In a statement I made to this House on 27th April 1 indicated that the Government had accepted the Select Committee’s recommendations as adopted by the House of Assembly and I foreshadowed the early introduction of legislation to deal with those recommendations concerning a change in the elected representation in the House of Assembly. [More…]
At the present time the House of Assembly consists of 94 members of whom 84 are elected and 10 are official members. [More…]
The 84 elected members are returned from 69 open electorates and 15 regional electorates. [More…]
Much has already been accomplished in the consideration of the issues raised by both parties - those officers representing the ‘various Commonwealth departments and those representatives of the Legislative Council, the elected representatives - in seeking the new State-like responsibilities for the Northern Territory Legislative Council. [More…]
The members of the Administrator’s Executive Council - the elected representatives of Papua New Guinea - have examined this proposal thoroughly. [More…]
I hope that the nation will note that not one member of the Government Parties - I repeat, not one member - thinks this legislation brought into the House by their newly elected Prime Minister of sufficient importance even to speak on it. [More…]
Now, Mr Deputy Speaker, this only reflects the position that I have been driven into as an elected member of this Parliament. [More…]
I am on my feet for the very reason that I am asking, almost pleading, that the elected members of this Parliament - not just those whose votes support the Government - be given the right to bring matters before this House and to have those matters debated. [More…]
Summarising those recommendations, the report recommended that there be 18 persons elected by the people to represent regional electorates. [More…]
In its recommendation that 100 members be elected by the people, it has reached the point that the Labor Party was suggesting when earlier legislation was before the House. [More…]
However much he may have been subsequently advised to moderate his stand since his first disastrous trip, the fact remains that Labor policy, as be stated it, was that, should the Labor Party be elected in 1972, Papua New Guinea would be made self-governing, whatever the people of Papua New Guinea thought, whatever fear, division and hopelessness it caused there, and whatever harm it did to Australia’s long term relationships with Papua New Guinea. [More…]
On the other hand, the Government has supported the formation of a Select Committee of Constitutional Development with members drawn, not from the ranks of Labor Press secretaries or ex-Australian trade union organisers, but from indigenous and expatriate members of the elected representatives of the people of Papua New Guinea; people who live and work in the Territory; people who can speak the lan guage of the Territory and who, presumably, have some knowledge in depth of the customs and mores of the Territorians. [More…]
Secondly, the Minister has recognised that there will almost inevitably be a number of changes amongst the peoples elected to the House of Assembly in 1972. [More…]
Firstly, there is a real danger, I believe, of fragmentation of the Territory should selfgovernment come before either the elected legislators or the Administration are ready for it. [More…]
It is obvious, therefore, that the Committee’s report reflects the opinions and desires of the people of the Territory and of their elected representatives. [More…]
To picture the McMahon Government as a big business government, as some of the 7 day wonders who got themselves elected to this place the year before last would maintain, rings as hollow as the copy of ‘Pravda’ where they read it. [More…]
Yet it is only 10 weeks since the Tonkin Government was elected in Western Australia, while the previous Lib eral Government had been in office 14 years and had done little for the farmers. [More…]
I believe it has been made amply clear to supporters of the Government that members of the Opposition are fully aware that we have been elected by the people to come to this place and that we are prepared to come here for another fortnight to deal with this business in the proper way. [More…]
There must be some degree of orderliness in it, but it must be orderliness imposed by someone who is responsible to a democratically elected institution such as the Parliament, or some board or tribunal that is itself responsible. [More…]
All Australia could then see that it is time that it elected Labor Party men in country seats instead of Country Party people. [More…]
I wish to dwell briefly, if I may, on the remarks tonight of the newly elected honourable member for Murray (Mr Lloyd). [More…]
In the first place they seek to usurp the role and the function of democratically elected government. [More…]
Sir Frank was informed by Mr McNicoll that there seemed little likelihood of Mr. McMahon’s being elected leader and that Mr Gorton was favourably regarded. [More…]
The Superannuation Board, which includes a member elected by the contributors, who is a party to all investment decisions, enters into private negotiations when a loan is to be secured by a mortgage of land or real property. [More…]
Here is a State government constitutionally set up, elected by the people, which makes a decision to construct a pipeline from Westernport to Altona in Victoria across Port Phillip Bay. [More…]
I think it is about time the Australian Labor Party, particularly the members of the Opposition, made a decision about upholding law and order and decisions by governments constitutionally elected through the ballot boxes in the normal way of ordinary democracies. [More…]
I do not intend to go into any technical detail but surely in a democracy information concerning the activities of government and policy decisions should be open to all so that people can know the full nature of their rights and privileges as decided by their elected representatives and so that informed and adequate public debate can take place on policy issues to ensure that checks and balances are available on the activities of government. [More…]
One of them had been elected for the second time. [More…]
A lot of them had been elected. [More…]
He said that the Labor Party, if elected, would withdraw all Australian troops from Vietnam instantly. [More…]
In the debate which has just concluded, a very great deal has been said about giving people the right to be ruled by their elected governments and that those elected governments should not be overthrown by force. [More…]
1 think that his timing in allowing arms to go to Pakistan in particular was extremely unwise because they are being used in a campaign, without any question, to overthrow the elected government. [More…]
Yahya Khan went to East Pakistan and talked to the elected Prime Minister of the country, poured in troops while he was doing so, then overthrew him, and in the actions of the Pakistan troops, which the Ministers know are described by their own diplomats, there are all the atrocities of which we could ever accuse the North Vietnamese multiplied many times over; and many more people have fled the country. [More…]
As the honourable member for Fremantle has told us, the Awami League was elected with a majority in the Pakistan National Assembly, but that National Assembly has never been convened. [More…]
Provision has been made in the Bill to increase, as appropriate, a pension that became payable, on or before 30th June 1971, to a person who elected to have the preservation provisions of the Superannuation Act 1971 apply to him and who took his preservation benefit in the form of a deferred pension. [More…]
The Council was originally composed of 21 contracting States elected by the Assembly of the Organization at which all contracting States are entitled to be present. [More…]
Australia has been an elected member of the Council since ICAO came into being. [More…]
Everybody wanted to get elected to the position because in that way it was thought that the Prime Minister could not shift him. [More…]
Why docs he not, as an honest, upstanding member who was recently elected to this chamber, as I was, have sufficient honesty and straightforwardness to stand up here tomorrow, or even tonight if he is afforded the opportunity, and dissociate himself from the remarks of the Treasurer? [More…]
They are not big enough to get up and say that they could not have been elected without the support of a party. [More…]
The members of the Government’s policy making body are not elected and members of that Party have no say in who becomes a member of that body. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that one man is elected leader and to him, as with Allah, all wisdom is attributed. [More…]
If the idea of the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) - an idea which h.;s been proposed by other honourable ‘members - were adopted whereby members of (he Party elected the ministry, that Party could talk about democracy. [More…]
Members of the Cabinet are selected. [More…]
It is not an elected body. [More…]
As to the expressed aims of the Government of Pakistan, President Yahya Khan said in a broadcast on 26th March: ‘ … my main aim remains the same, namely, transfer of power to the elected representatives of the people. [More…]
The first Commonwealth Ministers, were appointed and their appointment was announced before the Parliament was ever convened, or elected. [More…]
The Constitution makes provision for Ministers to hold their positions for, up to 3 months before they are elected to the Parliament. [More…]
In the case of friendly societies, contributors are elected at society meetings and to be eligible for election to the management body the contributor must be a member of the society. [More…]
It was not the policy of the elected Government of Australia. [More…]
I am glad that the Australian Labor Party has done as much as it has and that it has taken the proper initiative that elected persons ought to take on behalf of their country in this matter of supreme importance to this and future generations. [More…]
I have just heard, as I am sure the Parliament will agree it has heard, one of the best speeches made in this House since I was elected here in 1969. [More…]
Did not honourable members know before they were elected that this Parliament met in Canberra? [More…]
It is 16,000 hours since you were elected at the last election by the failure and misgivings of the people in the electorate of North Sydney and we have met for 1,073 hours of them. [More…]
I admit we would be better off if some of them stayed at home, but while they are elected to this Parliament I am prepared to support them. [More…]
It is not unfair to point out that probably in at least onethird of the 125 electoral divisions in the Parliament, the elected representative is working at a very intense level because his majority is a small one, whereas in probably two-thirds of the seats the pressure upon the member representing the electorate is not so great. [More…]
We were sent to the Federal Parliament to represent our electorates but the trouble is that once we have been elected we spend the next 3 years trying to come back here although we really do not want to be here. [More…]
Since I have been elected to this Parliament I have kept a count of the number of functions I have attended. [More…]
Fundamentally, those honourable members in marginal seats - that would account for about one-third of the number of members - have made themselves slaves to getting re-elected. [More…]
If they are so keen to spend all their time in their electorates doing those things, they are not doing the job for which they were elected, and that is to be here in Canberra as legislators. [More…]
I repeat: His real crime is that he is carrying out with energy and effect the job for which he was elected. [More…]
They are sick to death of strikes, demonstrations and the would-be Fascist dictators like Mr Hawke who are trying to take power out of the hands of this democratically elected Government. [More…]
I am a strong supporter of democratically elected unions and nobody can tell me that employers would not exploit employees if we did not have unions. [More…]
The unions must have responsible and democratically elected leaders representative of the people in the work force. [More…]
I stress that no matter what is done by the Government in these fields it will be useless unless strong action is taken to restore the power and the determination of the Government to govern, and the strongest possible action taken to deal with the destroyers, the exploiters, the Communists and the extreme Left fellow travellers who are at present allowed to defy constitutionally elected governments. [More…]
When Mr Hawke was first elected President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and on a number of subsequent occasions, the last being only a few days ago, he announced that the ACTU was about to establish its own hire purchase organisation for the benefit of trade unionists. [More…]
A week later the Assistant Director-General of the Hydraulics Division of the Department of Works and the Director of Health for the Northern Territory discussed the scheme with elected members of the Northern Territory Legislative Council, the Darwin City Corporation, trade unions, the Port Authority, Darwin doctors, the Darwin Chamber of Commerce, the National Council of Women and the Press. [More…]
Let us have a look at what has happened since the Menzies Government was elected to power in 1949 on a policy of putting value back into the 1. [More…]
If a Labor government had been elected in 1969 a person in receipt of a full rate pension would now be receiving $18.50 a week compared with $17.25 paid by the Government. [More…]
The conduct of the forthcoming elections in the Republic of Vietnam is the domestic responsibility of the elected government of that country. [More…]
They have never been adequately investigated and they are not responsible to any democratically elected bodies. [More…]
When governments are elected on emotional issues one finds that those governments do not always govern in the best interests of the people. [More…]
But at least we are elected and from time to time sacked individually and collectively by the people themselves, and this is the great distinction from the others of whom I have spoken. [More…]
From the group who completed their training at the end of 1969, 2 elected to serve Administration pre-schools in Aboriginal communities. [More…]
Since 1969 when we were elected this Parliament has met on 113 days. [More…]
The same thing applies to my friend the Treasurer (Mr Snedden), who was elected to thc Parliament on the same day as I was. [More…]
The magistrate took this action following a successful amendment of the Liquor Licensing Ordinance moved by an elected member of the Legislative Council, Mr Withnall. [More…]
The historical fact is that on being elected in 1949 he promptly forgot about the proposals for a contributory system for national superannuation. [More…]
Will the Minister for Social Services inform the Senate whether the Government intends that the Social Security Committee, the Government members of which were elected last November, shall continue to function, in view of the vast expansion of social services envisaged by the Government due to the success of the referendum of this issue? [More…]
In speaking tonight I wish first to pass some words of praise to the PostmasterGeneral (Sir Alan Hulme) for the job he has done for Australia since being elected to this Parliament in 1949. [More…]
When a change in the Prime Ministership took place earlier this year we were told that the new Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) had a mandate because it was the party which was elected to govern and not an individual. [More…]
I resent very strongly the action of the Postal Union in using this sort of tactic and I wish to register my protest in this democratically elected Parliament. [More…]
Since Mr Hawke was elected President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions with the support of the extreme left wing we have seen a complete reversal of the policy of his predecessor, Albert Monk, who steadfastly held that there should be no involvement by trade unions in purely political strikes. [More…]
He took this action in defiance of the wish of 85 per cent of the Australian people that the rugby tour should go on and in defiance of the decision of the duly elected Government that the tour should go on. [More…]
Provision has been made in the Bill to increase, as appropriate, a pension that became payable, on or before 30th June 1971, to a person who elected to have the preservation provisions of the Superannuation Act 1971 apply to him and who took his preservation benefit in the form of a deferred pension. [More…]
There is a President who is elected annually. [More…]
1 think that the classless society like Papua New Guinea an all party Parliament or an all elements of opinion Parliament, with an elected Cabinet and an annual President might be the best system. [More…]
Have a majority of elected councillors on the island resigned in protest over the Ordinance. [More…]
Five of the eight elected members of the Norfolk Island Committee resigned recently. [More…]
I ask: Are all these matters to be determined in Canberra, or are they to be determined by those authorities which are elected locally and which know the conditions appropriate to each market? [More…]
I have met heads of villages and hamlets who have been elected on a number of occasions as a result of free democratic elections. [More…]
Many of his recommendations relate to matters falling within the final responsibility of elected Papua New Guinea Ministerial office-holders. [More…]
He was elected to this place not so long ago. [More…]
The chairman of these committees should be elected directly from the Senate. [More…]
We have been elected here to do a job and if it is necessary to get certain legislation through we should put up with the inconvenience and not go home and complain. [More…]
That the Government go beyond the plea of the Prime Minister for magnanimity and compassion in the trial of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on charges of treason, and insist on the liberty of this openly and democratically elected leader. [More…]
For example the Hospital Benefits Association in Victoria, which is the main health insurance organisation in that State, has only 4 elected contributor representatives out of 52 members. [More…]
That the Government go beyond the plea of the Prime Minister for magnaminity and compassion in the trial of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on charges of treason, and insist on the liberty of this openly and democratically elected leader. [More…]
Labor will reconstitute the AWIC and the Australian Wool Board on a democratically elected basis and have an investigation and an evaluation of wool promotion and research. [More…]
That the Government go beyond the plea of the Prime Minister for magnanimity and compassion in the trial of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on charges of treason, and insist on the liberty of this openly and democratically elected leader. [More…]
It is important that the leaders of these areas that want self-government also be elected members of the central government. [More…]
More importantly, their elected representatives should come down here and talk to all of us, not just to the Minister for External Territories (Mr Barnes), without being disrespectful to him, to get our points of view on their problems. [More…]
The House of Assembly has been elected by the people of Papua New Guinea to express their views. [More…]
That, the Government go beyond the plea of the Prime Minister for magnanimity and compassion in the trial of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on charges of treason, and insist on the liberty of this openly and democratically elected leader. [More…]
That, the Government go beyond the plea of the Prime Minister for magnanimity and compassion in the trial of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on charges of treason, and insist on the liberty of this openly and democratically elected leader. [More…]
We regard Sheik Mujibur Rahman as the rightfully elected Prime Minister of all Pakistan and certainly of East Pakistan, and the Awami League as the rightfully elected government.’ [More…]
I think it is important that the general public should show its concern by contacting the elected members of Parliament. [More…]
Are any popularly elected representatives included on the Committee. [More…]
William McMahon became Prime Minister of Australia on 10th March 197 1, after he had been elected Leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party. [More…]
Mr McMahon first entered the Australian Parliament when he was elected to the House of Representatives for the New South Wales seat of Lowe in 1949. [More…]
He was re-elected in 1951, 1954, 1955, 1958. [More…]
I can see it headlined in the New York ‘Times’, the Washington ‘Post’, the London ‘Times’, and the Manchester ‘Guardian’ that the Prime Minister of Australia has actually been re-elected. [More…]
That, the Government go beyond the plea of the Prime Minister for magnanimity and compassion in the trial of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on charges of treason, and insist on the liberty of this openly and democratically elected leader. [More…]
While this expenditure must be regarded as essential in the short term, sooner or later, as responsible elected members of this Parliament, we must sit down in a proper manner and assess whether there is any need for the wool industry, measured in the long term, having regard to the availability of synthetics. [More…]
The United States Administration has been going through a process of disciplinary action by the elected representatives of the United States people - the United States Congress. [More…]
What this Government is doing is circumventing the express wishes and desires of the elected representatives of the United States people - the United States Congress. [More…]
When the Australian Labor Party is elected to power at the end of next year - if the present Parliament lasts that long - we will do something about the industry. [More…]
We desire to have these matters discussed because how a government is elected is vital to the Australian people, lt is important that our electoral system should be the best that it is possible to achieve. [More…]
Attorney-General’s Department, the Public Service Board, and the Treasury with an equal number of elected members of the Legislative Council. [More…]
I believe that this will take place now that the Legislative Council has been re-elected. [More…]
One of the basic objectives, and certainly one which is followed by the Australian Labor Party, should be to provide a fully elected Legislative Council. [More…]
The reason why he was elected to the Legislative Council was that he attacked the County Party administration of the Northern Territory; Good luck to him if he keeps it up. [More…]
This led to a submission to the Government, and the Government has resolved to have a further meeting at the ministerial level with the Legislative Council should the elected members desire a meeting after the Council reconvenes. [More…]
1971 was 39,179, thus enabling the Commonwealth Electoral Officer to determine pursuant to Rule 35 (b) of the abovementioned rules, the number of delegates to annual convention to be elected to represent the Branch. [More…]
That the Government go beyond the plea of the Prime Minister for magnanimity and compassion in the trial of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on charges of treason, and insist on the liberty of this openly and democratically elected leader. [More…]
That the Government go beyond the plea of the Prime Minister for magnanimity and compassion in the trial of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on charges of treason, and insist on the liberty of this openly and democratically elected leader. [More…]
The Government also placed before this House in May 1971, amendments to the Papua and New Guinea Act which gave effect to the Select Committee’s recommendations on changes in the elected representation in the House of Assembly. [More…]
The Select Committee recommended that the House of Assembly should, after the next elections, be composed of not less than 104 members and not more than 107 members, as follows: 18 persons elected by the people to represent regional electorates; 82 persons elected by the people to represent open electorates; up to 3 nominated members, nominated by the House of Assembly for special purposes; and 4 official members, appointed by the GovernorGeneral on the Administrator’s nomination; and clause 16 of the Bill so provides. [More…]
The recommended increase in the elected membership from 84 to 100 was provided for in the amendments to the Papua and New Guinea Act earlier this year and these provisions are merely re- enacted now. [More…]
The inclusion of non-elected nominated members in the House is a new concept in Papua New Guinea but there is a widespread feeling in Papua New Guinea of the need to provide a means for the representations of special groups, for example, women, or persons having a special expertise, in the legislature. [More…]
Once a person has accepted nomination to the House, he will hold office on the same basis as if he were an elected member of the House. [More…]
He was obviously elected on some of those promises, but many of his promises relating to conservation and fuel have never been honoured. [More…]
Dealing with the question of water conservation and the River Murray as it has been dealt with tonight by the honourable member who has just had a lot to say but who scarpered from the chamber when I rose, the recently elected member for Murray (Mr Lloyd) one has to deal with the assertion made by him that politics are being played. [More…]
Your petitioners also humbly pray that the Australian Government take the initiative in urging the instatement of Sheik Mujibur Rahman as the elected leader of his people and the creating of a political climate which will enable the refugees now in India to make a speedy, safe return to their own country. [More…]
But the fact of the matter is that one of the allies to whose aid we are treaty bound to come has suppressed a government led by Sheik Mujibur Rahman in which the Awami League won 167 out of 169 seats in East Pakistan and in fact obtained an absolute majority of seats in the elected parliament of the whole of Pakistan. [More…]
But he made the mistake and the wrong government was elected. [More…]
If it is to do any good for the country and for the people it represents its representatives in this Parliament - whether they have been elected by a low percentage or not - ought to have enough courage to make up their own minds as properly elected and so-called responsible members of this Parliament. [More…]
We have had this same grovelling attitude on his part as though Americans are the only people who populate the earth and if we in Australia do not bow to every whim and wish and if we do not abdicate in favour of the United States all of our national responsibilities which the people elected us to perform, we must be considered to be traitors with respect to the grand and great alliance with the United States. [More…]
I wish to address my remarks on these estimates to the question of making more effective use of the knowledge gained by the Attorney-General and those people elected to Parliament in the course of looking atthe laws of the Parliament, and perhaps to the many deficiencies in those laws which we do not realise exist until a High Court decision is made. [More…]
The pilot-in-command of VH-TJA elected to continue the take-off and attempted to overfly the obstructing aircraft. [More…]
From answers I have received to questions on notice, it is very obvious that the last thing the Department of Civil Aviation wants is to have popularly elected representatives appearing on any of its committees. [More…]
There are no popularly elected representatives from the councils that are vitally affected around Sydney airport on the Sydney Airport Development Committee and there are no popularly elected representatives on the airport committee that is examining the siting of Sydney’s second airport. [More…]
In view of the petitions presented to Parliament and evidence of pending evictions at Aged Persons Homes erected under Commonwealth subsidy, will he take steps to ensure (a) guarantee of tenancy duration protection to aged people paying donation deposits for entry, (b) that the audited annual statements of the income and running expenses of these establishments are made available to residents and public, (c) that evictions are not possible without recourse to an outside independent tribunal, (d) that units that do become vacant because of disputes are not resold but let, (e) that all boards of management have resident representatives elected on an annual basis and (f) that a review is conducted of the conditions of making grants to the satisfaction of residents and boards of management. [More…]
I am sure that all those who had the privilege of attending this conference hope that the holding of conferences of this kind will long continue, because they are unique in enabling parliamentarians - the elected representatives of the people - to get together and, with mutual advantage, discuss significant matters which affect not only the Commonwealth of Nations but also the world as a whole. [More…]
After this meeting I sent another message to President Yahya Khan urging upon him once again the need to deal with the elected representatives of East Pakistan and with’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. [More…]
Australia is not a member of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment because it was nol elected to membership. [More…]
Labor will reconstitute the AWIC and the Australian Wool Board on a democratically elected basis and have an investigation and evaluation of wool promotion and research. [More…]
Shortly after I was elected as a member of this House my colleague the honourable member for Barton took me on a tour of his electorate. [More…]
Since ‘hen South Australia has elected to return to the protection of the Grants Commission as a claimant Stale. [More…]
That is one of >he reasons why South Australia has elected to apply for assistance through the Commonwealth Grants Commission. [More…]
We certainly will not need to coerce the States to do anything of the sort, just as we will not have to coerce the private sector to do this because the private sector at this time, through its elected industry and commerce representatives, is talking in the same terms as we are of the need for overall plans and a target. [More…]
Shortly after 1 was elected to this House I went to my colleague, the honourable member for Barton, together with a number of constituents, people interested in senior citizens centres, including a councillor, on a tour of the electorate of Barton. [More…]
Immediately after I was elected to this House I called a public meeting and explained to the people that there was a desperate need to provide these centres. [More…]
Commonwealth assistance should be given to put this conference on a regular basis and to finance periodic meetings of an administrative council elected by the conference. [More…]
There is a very good reason for having an Administrator’s Executive Council elected by the Ministers who are themselves selected, by a Parliamentary process of selection, by a committee of the House of Assembly which is elected by the House of Assembly, and that that election should be subject to the confirmation of the House of Assembly. [More…]
When 1 was first elected to this Parliament, 26 years ago, very large parts of the map of the highlands of Papua New Guinea were simply blank. [More…]
There will be 18 regional members elected by the people, 82 open electorate members also elected by the people, 3 members nominated by the House of Assembly for special purposes and 4 official members appointed by the Governor-General on the Administrator’s nomination. [More…]
Some of the regional electorate members have been inarticulate throughout the period they have been elected. [More…]
We have the basic principle, which has been ignored, that if from a region representatives had been elected to the national assembly there would be a very cohesive parliament. [More…]
So these people should be given the opportunity now to be elected on a regional basis. [More…]
The solution, in my view, is to get back to the regional concept, and from the elected regional members get the national Parliament. [More…]
All the areas of concern, such as primary and secondary education, health, local government and the land situation, are there for the decision of the elected members of the House of Assembly. [More…]
Our Ministry would be elected by the whole parliamentary Party. [More…]
I do not like the idea of nominations of this sort with one individual having power over another, particularly in an elective system which is basically a system of equality in which all the people elected to the place are basically equal with equal responsibilities. [More…]
They are actually selected by election of the House of Assembly. [More…]
Perish the thought’, says the Minister to the idea of a ministry elected by the members of the Parliament. [More…]
He elected to surrender his lease and this was accepted by the Department and tenders were recently re-invited. [More…]
this offence were stating false things about this Parliament, lt might look funny to the public, bat there is nothing humorous in being depicted as people who do not do the right thing by those who have elected us. [More…]
To hell with politicians; what does it matter about people who are elected? [More…]
I can truly say that, without that training and without that assistance, we could not possibly have done the job for which we were elected. [More…]
The pilot in-command of VH-TJA elected to continue the take-off and attempted to overfly the obstructing aircraft. [More…]
7 on page 36 that the flight crew of TJA state that at the commencement of their take-off, they did not observe CF-CPQ on the runway as an obstruction, that nevertheless CF-CPQ was observed at a time when the take-off could have been abandoned with safety, and that the pilot-in-command of VH-TJA elected to continue the take-off and attempted to over-fly the obstructing aircraft. [More…]
If we want to avoid heavy unemployment in Australia, it is essential to avoid the position where men like Mr Hawke, who is under such a heavy obligation to his Communist sponsors, without whose votes he could never have been elected as President of the ACTU, could control an Australian government. [More…]
These bodies are there not merely to advise Ministers; they are there to advise the elected persons and the public in general. [More…]
These will comprise a person elected by teachers and a person nominated by the Commissioner together with an independent chairman appointed by the Minister. [More…]
This disciplinary appeal board will comprise an officer elected by the teachers of the Service, an officer appointed by the Commissioner and an independent chairman appointed by the Minister. [More…]
The Australian Teachers Federation believes that the Service should be administered by a commission of 3 members, one of whom would be elected by the teachers. [More…]
Likewise in Tasmania the scheme has a bipartisan support and the Liberal Government elected in 1969 continued to implement a scheme commenced by the proceeding Reece Labor Government. [More…]
It could be claimed that perhaps the Leader of the Labor Party, Mr Hawke, might have played some part but were those officially elected by the people prepared to make a stand on behalf of the people in New South Wales in the motor industry who were likely to be thrown out of work? [More…]
This cannot be brought about by political action or by trying to gain kudos and advantage to elect a government which is more likely, if it were elected, to be controlled by the trade union movement and the radical wing of it than it is by the Parliament. [More…]
We badly need some principle, such as is seen in the membership of the Australian Wool Board, where some membersare elected not because they are involved in wool production but because they have special experience in marketing, in finance or in advertising. [More…]
It is that they hope to be able to attract the support of a handful of private members who have been elected to support the Government and who disagree on some particular measure or dislike some individual member personally. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition is a barrister of the New South Wales Supreme Court, and I suggest that it is an entirely irresponsible approach for him to suggest that citizens should disobey laws passed through this Parliament by their elected representatives. [More…]
It is time that a firm decision was made and ensuing legislation brought down for the provision of equal free time for local government candidates, State parliamentary candidates, Federal parliamentary candidates or, for that matter, any person standing for an elected position of important community function where most of the community population has the right to vote or will be affected by an election. [More…]
The purpose of this motion is to make it abundantly clear to the people of Australia tha: the Leader Opposition (Mr Whitlam) and his Party are supporting and encouraging breaches of the law made by the elected representatives of the people in the Commonweath Parliament. [More…]
Mr Johnston before the courts and have him convicted before the election date, and too late to nominate anybody else, there would be a situation inwhich Mr Johnston could not be elected to the Parliament or sit in the Parliament and my party could not contest his seat. [More…]
That is the judgment that a government and the members of the Parliament as the elected representatives of the people should make. [More…]
Almost from the time I was elected to this House I have received representations regarding a gentleman in my electorate. [More…]
He served his prison sentence and was elected to this Parliament. [More…]
Accordingly the Bill provides for the producer representatives to be elected by a poll of honey producers in each of the mainland States. [More…]
This proposal is not acceptable as it is considered that as provision is being made for the election of producer members it should be left to the producers to decide by a majority vote whether a beekeeper with packer interests should be elected. [More…]
Cri de coeur have come from (his place regularly over the years but, to their own detriment in a sense, Labor governments have been elected in a number of States in Australia and one can test their administration where they have effective power. [More…]
It was the day on which the right honourable member for Lowe was elected Prime Minister. [More…]
Indeed, I believe that if people are elected or selected in a particular industry group to work on a commodity board or any other board one would hope that they did not only represent a narrow selective group which had a particular interest within that particular body. [More…]
The honourable member used to serve on the board of management before he was elected to this Parliament. [More…]
After all, they are elected to take responsible decisions about various things, and not the least of those is education. [More…]
He is not popularly elected, as are we in the Labor Party. [More…]
The second point 1 wish to make is that he has sought in South East Asia by his statements to undermine the policy of the elected Government of this country. [More…]
It may be that there will be another elected government at some time but at the moment he has gone abroad and in foreign countries sought to undermine the policy of the elected Government of his own country. [More…]
The Minister made repeated references to immediate withdrawal from Singapore and Malaysia if Labor is elected to office. [More…]
The honourable member for Angas should show whether his loyalty is towards individuals in his Party or to the people who elected him to this place. [More…]
On that board there will be one elected representative of the teachers, one representative nominated by the Commissioner and an independent chairman appointed by the Minister. [More…]
In considering the possibility of having a commission which would include representatives elected by teachers, regard has to be had to the total provisions of the Bill. [More…]
The view has also been reported that it would be unthinkable to establish medical or legal commissions, as has been mentioned in this debate, without representatives elected from the profession concerned. [More…]
Union bosses are elected by their rank and file to carry out the wishes of the membership of a union. [More…]
One wonders whether the Labor Party, the alternative Government, if ever elected, would in fact ever be able or allowed to govern when non-industrial action by the ACTU of this character can effectively interrupt normal and legitimate commercial transactions. [More…]
There was in the Deputy Leader’s speech not one word of congratulation for the magnificent performance of our servicemen who fought in the name of Australia by order of the properly elected government of Australia. [More…]
It may be that the war in Indo-China can remain hidden enough for President Nixon to be elected again as President. [More…]
I hope that the government which is elected at the next elections - whether it be a Labor government or a Liberal-Country Party government - will see fit to remove the stigma of any convictions which have been recorded against any demonstrators in this country who demonstrated against the Vietnam war. [More…]
One will certainly want to know what it means when one considers clause 30 which deals with a promotions appeals board, because there is reference there to an officer elected as prescribed by officers of the service. [More…]
If its figures are right - I have no doubt that they are - and if it does its lobbying with the same enthusiasm as it sends out correspondence, it is quite clear that it will be able to get its nominee elected to the Australian Honey Board. [More…]
Its chairman is a State-elected person. [More…]
In the past most producer nominees were selected by a State executive committee to be on the Honey Board as a producer representative, but in some States they were elected by the majority vote of the annual conference of the State association. [More…]
As such they have been in the past elected sometimes by very few people indeed. [More…]
I feel, rightly or wrongly, that some of those elected to the FCAAA and to the Honey Board are not necessarily the right people to give guidance in matters of commerce, marketing and merchandising to the industry. [More…]
The main purpose of this Bill is to provide for producers to be elected by fellow producers in each State. [More…]
I understand that the amendments to the Act will allow alterations to the manner in which the beekeeper representatives or the apiarists representatives are elected to the Honey Board. [More…]
Some States have elected a producer as their representative. [More…]
It is fair enough if we are to be criticised, because that is our lot as elected members of this House. [More…]
It is well known that if a Labor government is elected to power there will be a redistribution based on a one vote one value principle, not on the basis of those enrolled but on a basis which includes children and migrants not yet enrolled. [More…]
The people of the electorate of Chifley - that is a very great name - elected me to come into this Parliament to represent them, and that is what I am doing. [More…]
I can understand his not wanting parity of electorates because he was elected on a minority vote of about 45 per cent of the electors. [More…]
I repeat that it was not until a Labor government was elected in 1943 that the primary producer held his head high and marched through this country in the full knowledge that he had guaranteed markets and guaranteed prices for his products and, instead of owing banks money, was able to have credit and the wherewithal to keep body and soul together in a way that brought him responsibility. [More…]
elected representatives. [More…]
Let us not forget that ALP policies, both foreign and domestic, are made not by the elected parliamentary representatives but by the Party organisation outside Parliament itself. [More…]
It is just possible, too, that there are people in the community who are not attached to any of the parties, lt is just possible that they take seriously the fact that the Parliament is the repository, or is supposed to be the repository, of the people’s rights and so they go past the member, they go past the Party and they go direct to the democratically elected Parliament of the nation sitting as a Parliament - to what has been called the grand constituency of all the people. [More…]
I should like to think that we who have been elected to Parliament would try to serve the people just a little more faithfuly, that we would try to see that the desires of the people were translated into legislative effect and that those people who have felt strongly enough on a subject to make a petition to the Parliament would receive a reply to their views, that their views would be considered and that the Parliament itself would discuss these matters in an informed way rather than adopt the present practice of allowing petitions to be received and to be passed to some dungeon to be stored or for something else to happen to them. [More…]
That is not the same situation, as is implied widely on the other side of the House, as electors petitioning through their democratically elected representatives to this institution, They are just not the same things. [More…]
After all, we are elected and go through some considerable process to be elected. [More…]
Very real difficulties arise in placing restraints on individuals who have a right in accordance with the constitution of a particular body io be elected after the sort of campaign which they might be permitted to run. [More…]
But let me say that from the Government’s point of view any person who is either appointed to a body or who might be elected to it is expected after he becomes a member of that body to divorce himself from the responsibilities he previously exercised and to act thenceforth in accordance with the overall responsibilities which the new appointment places upon him. [More…]
There should be no argument about that for those of us who have been elected to Parliament have been elected to serve in the Parliament. [More…]
For 18 years there have been 2 separate Vietnams - one controlled by a communist government and one controlled by an elected government. [More…]
I was elected in May 1955. [More…]
But when the Country-Liberal Party Government was elected on 3rd August 1957 - known in Queensland as black Saturday - the Treasurer, Mr Hiley, who is now Sir. [More…]
When it was elected in that year it abolished the previous system of acquiring land for the Queensland Housing Commission. [More…]
We envisage that these nongovernmental representatives would be elected by and from the professional scientists in each principal field of the physical, social and applied sciences. [More…]
The members of these committees would be elected by and from the appropriate group of professional scientists. [More…]
He is most certainly under the influence of people who are not elected members of this national Parliament. [More…]
The results of the elections gave no one party a majority in the 100 elected member House of Assembly, but shortly before the opening of the House on 20th April the Pangu Party entered into a coalition with the People’s Progress Party, the New Guinea National Party, the Mataungan Association group and a group of independents led by the former Speaker, Dr John Guise, to form a governing coalition group. [More…]
Following acceptance by the House of Assembly of the coalition’s list I formally created 17 Ministries and the Ministers then elected one of their number to be the Deputy Chairman of the Administrator’s Executive Council. [More…]
The Ministers elected Mr Michael Somare, the parliamentary leader of the Pangu Party, to tie the Deputy Chairman of the Administrator’s Executive Council and the House of Assembly in turn endorsed that election. [More…]
Following discussions between the Administrator and the Deputy Chairman of the Administrator’s Executive Council, the Administrator recommended to me the allocation and distribution of portfolio responsibilities among the Ministry and those Ministers who should make up the elected membership of the Administrator’s Executive Council. [More…]
May I say finally that I and the Government look forward to working closely with the newly elected members of the House of Assembly and, in particular, with members of the Administrator’s Executive Council. [More…]
New Guineans will have home rule as soon as a ‘Labor Government can make the necessary arrangements with the House of Assembly which will also be elected in 1972. [More…]
Candidates for election to the House of Representatives to be elected on the basis of the greatest number of votes to any candidate, i.e., first past the post’ and on the basis of one vote one value. [More…]
This is a classic case where in the Grand National Assembly 465 deputies were elected under the first past the post system. [More…]
The question that concerns me is that people in the electorate are saying that if the Labor Party were elected to office it would make such a mess of it that the Liberal-Country Party would soon be returned. [More…]
It is absolutely certain that in the event of an extraordinary by-election in Tasmania for a Senate seat a Labor senator would be elected. [More…]
There are not many people who would not recollect the Playford Liberal Government in South Australia that was elected to office with only 36 per cent of the popular vote. [More…]
Even if one could justify government abdication from the functions it was elected to perform, is it fair to expect any body to regulate the national economy if that body is without power to control prices, profits, taxation, tariffs, interest charges, land prices and the many other weapons available to government in controlling inflation and unemployment. [More…]
It is entitled from the funds that it can have to employ proper professional assistants in addition to its rank and flic elected leaders. [More…]
He was speaking in terms of what was a reasonable percentage of votes in a ballot for the amalgamation of unions, and he said this: ‘It is true that in Victoria, out of 33 members of Parliament, 18 are elected on preferences.’ [More…]
This particular member of the Federal Executive of the Labor Party said that he did not want a Labor Party to be elected to office and afterwards do those things which are in the platform and then be accused of misleading the public in order to be elected. [More…]
In Western Australia 18-year-olds voting for the first time elected the oldest Premier ever to take office in that State and this should give our present Prime Minister at least a gleam of hope. [More…]
It never ceases to amaze me how this Government has been able to get away with blatant misuse of the powers conferred upon it merely by being elected to govern although it did not have the majority of the votes cast by the electors, lt has never ceased to amaze me that this Government is able to be the voice of this Parliament through the support of some 22 Australian Country Party members who received less than 8 per cent of the total vote. [More…]
This is no way to ask the elected legislators of the Parliament to make laws for the good government of the people of Australia. [More…]
A union official is elected by his members to act for them for 3 years, the same as this Government was elected by the people to act for 3 years. [More…]
Once elected, union officials have as much right as has the Government during that 3- year period to make judgments and decisions on behalf of the members they represent in the way they see representation to be properly applied. [More…]
For example, if a person is elected for 4 years an action cannot be taken at all after that time. [More…]
It is also pertinent to note that in Federal Parliamentary elections it is not required that a candidate must obtain the support of 50 per cent plus of all voters on the voting roll to be elected. [More…]
Honourable members will realise that I have been asking for these expenses to be made tax deductible since I was elected to this House in 1966. [More…]
One member shall be a Senator elected by the Senate. [More…]
One member shall be a Member of the House of Representatives elected by that House. [More…]
A member of the Council elected by either House of the Parliament holds office, subject to this Act, for such period, not exceeding five years as is fixed by that House at the time of his election. [More…]
The Opposition believes that it will be valuable if the whole field of related sciences is involved in the governing of this Institute; that there should be 2 members to be appointed by the Governor-General from a panel submitted by the Australian Marine Science Association; that there should be 2 members appointed by the GovernorGeneral from a panel submitted by the Great Barrier Reef Committee; that there should be a member appointed by the GovernorGeneral from a panel submitted by the Geological Society of Australia; that there should be a senator elected by the Senate and a member of the House of Representatives elected by that House; and that there should be such other members as is deemed necessary from time to time appointed by the Governor-General, but of every 3 members of the Council 2 should be persons possessing scientific qualifications. [More…]
The Opposition believes that a member of the Council elected by either House of the Parliament should hold office, subject to this Act, for such period not exceeding 5 years as is fixed by that House at the time of his election; and that subject to this Act, each member appointed by the Governor-General should hold office for such period, not exceeding 5 years, as is specified in the instrument of his appointment and on such terms and conditions as the Governor-General determines, but would be eligible for re-appointment. [More…]
All members are elected as representatives of their particular electorates. [More…]
The Opposition is controlled by an outside body that is not elected by the people of Australia; it is a body that has a policy of socialism; a body dominated- [More…]
A government is elected by the people to make decisions. [More…]
Labor’s policy is centred on 5 fundamental points: Firstly, the amalgamation of the Australian Wool Board and the Australian Wool Commission to form the nucleus of a single statutory marketing authority under the control of a full time chairman; secondly, a statutory authority to acquire, appraise and market the Australian wool clip on behalf of wool growers; thirdly, a continuous and progressive reconstruction and development scheme to assist in the solution of production problems and in the solution of production problems and in the streamlining of the physical methods of selling wool, including objective measurement; fourthly, the payment of tariff compensation, if justified, to offset the serious net cost disabilities incurred in the production of wool for export as a result of essential high tariffs in Australia; and, lastly, a fully elected Australian Wool Industry Conference to represent wool growers in all wool producing areas of Australia. [More…]
I hope to goodness that, if I get to that stage, I will not be re-elected to this House. [More…]
Yet the Government will not provide a notice paper which will give honourable members the right to debate these matters, and any opportunity an honourable member has as an individually elected member of this Parliament to raise those issues will be denied to him because the Government will use the gag, the guillotine and the old numbers game to prevent such a debate in this place. [More…]
If the honourable member for Mallee will tell me that this Government, since it was elected in 1969, has produced a legislative programme for this House prior to each session I will get up and apologise to the place but I do not think I will need to do that. [More…]
Our council has discussed this problem at length and has decided to appeal to you, as one of our elected representatives in the Federal Parliament, to support this point of view, which is fair and just for all concerned. [More…]
Whilst this company certainly is owned by overseas capital, it has played a major part in the development of the Australian economy since the company’s establishment and since its real development began in 1950 when this coalition Government was elected to represent the people of Australia. [More…]
What percentage of those (a) medical and (b) hospital funds which provide for the election of contributor representatives have, in fact, an elected contributor representative on their governing bodies (Hansard, 8th September 1971, page 977). [More…]
The remaining fund fulfils the provision by the fact that members of the Management Committee are proposed and seconded by contributors and elected by ballot of contributors present at the Annual General Meeting. [More…]
In each of the organisations what is the number of (a) people and (b) elected contributor representatives on their governing body. [More…]
This advice was ignored and they elected the tent. [More…]
The honourable member for Lalor, who is the shadow Minister for Trade and Industry and who, if a Labor government is elected, would presumably become the Minister for Trade and Industry, has shown unmistakably again tonight that as a member of a Labor government he will have no hesitation, when submitting matters to the Tariff Board, in instructing the Tariff Board virtually how to make a finding. [More…]
Let industry beware that if a Labor government is elected the autonomy, the independence, of the Tariff Board will be gone and gone forever. [More…]
What were the (a) numbers and (b) percentages of scholars who, in accepting the scholarships in 1972, elected to use them for (i) fulltime and (ii) part-time studies in each State and Territory. [More…]
The new State Government was elected in February of 1971 and its first Parliament was not convened until July 1971. [More…]
The Country Party, supported by its partner in crime, the Liberal Party - which polled 22 per cent of the vote for a total of 21 seats; nearly as many seats as its percentage of the total vote - is able to inflict its wishes on the democratically elected city administration i;i the Greater Brisbane area. [More…]
The Parliament and the nation should have been told that the elected Government would set goals for 1975 of genuine full employment, of reducing inflation to acceptable limits. [More…]
This is the root of the present national sickness - the feeling deeply held by whole sections of the community, the employees, large sections of the employers, the youth, the poor, the Aborigines, that their own elected Government is . [More…]
But I pointed out also that I found myself as impressed as did ali other elected persons, by specific representations. [More…]
It is not something that politicians like to talk about because with an election coming on people will immediately assume that if we are elected that’s what we will do. [More…]
Nevertheless, 1 have the same experience as every other elected person, that on specific cases that are put up, one believes that a high level of protection is still required. [More…]
If by mischance Labor is elected to office then let the people not say that they have not been warned. [More…]
If Labor is elected there will be a destruction of the existing basic fabric of our economy. [More…]
On this side of the Parliament we have a democratic party system of election to the front bench and we have democratic decisions by all of the elected representatives on policy. [More…]
What I would do is to see at least that the Government of this country is decided by the elected representatives of the country and not by the elected representatives of private capital, of multi-national corporations like Shell, General Motors-Holden’s Pty Ltd or Imperial Chemical Industries. [More…]
It is not something that politicians like to talk about because with an election coming on people will immediately assume that if we are elected, that’s what we will do. [More…]
Unfortunately, Dr Evatt and the Labor Party missed out on being elected to the government of this country by a matter of about 600 votes over the whole of Australia. [More…]
That is to say that if we had been fortunate enough to have been elected on that occasion, the means test would have been abolished 15 years ago. [More…]
Benefits are given on the eve of an election and, immediately after the Government is re-elected, it is followed by savage increases in both direct and indirect taxation. [More…]
My third and final point concerns a lot of men who are in responsible positions in local government - men who are there because they were elected by their fellow men and who work in a voluntary capacity. [More…]
If Mr Whitlam is elected to office and keeps all his promises, he will have to find finance for boosting pensions to 25 per cent of average earnings; ending the means test; handing out an immediate $100 million to pensioners and unemployed; reducing sales tax; raising unemployment benefits;- extra spending on schools and hospitals; pre-school education; free university education; a national insurance scheme; and regenerating urban public transport. [More…]
In the lower ranks of ‘elected’ union officialdom (delegales to union conferences, shop stewards etc.) [More…]
Indeed, if elected to government, the Australian Labor Party would find the issue very divisive on account of its anti-democratic lunatic left which, mercifully, is only a small minority. [More…]
I suppose this is really par for the course in both personal and party terms, for not only can the Leader - the public spokesman - of the Party not commit the Opposition in vital areas but what is even more serious is that the elected Labor members of Parliament cannot commit the Labor Party on any policy matter. [More…]
This was all right in the early years of this century when there was a role to play, but these conferences make Labor policy; they make the policy for the elected members of Parliament. [More…]
However, at least we should concede that it must be a great break for the students of the University of Melbourne that he was elected to this Parliament. [More…]
This repudiation shows what trust the men who elected him have in him as their leader, and what trust they have in him as a man who demonstrably hungers for the power to govern the national economy. [More…]
I said that we would set up a wide-ranging committee of inquiry with open terms of reference to inquire into the broad aspect of social welfare that would have special emphasis on the subject of poverty and would progressively report to a Labor government and that we would establish this inquiry, announce its terms of reference and announce the personnel of such an inquiry within 3 months of being elected to the government. [More…]
The article claims that if Labor is elected to office and keeps all its promises, Mr Whitlam will have to do just that. [More…]
In 1938 Lyons promised that if elected he would introduce a national insurance scheme. [More…]
Businessmen who have been addressed by the Leader of the Opposition have been convinced that if the Labor Party were elected tq office it would adopt Liberal-Country Party policies, that as far as businessmen were concerned there was nothing to fear. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition said that if Labor is elected it will increase hospital benefits, but once again he did not say by how much. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has said on several occasions that, when elected, the Labor Party will spend enormous amounts of money on schools, preschool education and free universities. [More…]
The honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) talked about extra home savings grants and reduced interest rates on housing mortgage loans, should a Labor government be elected to office. [More…]
He is one of those mysterious and ghost like figures elected exclusively to boost the numbers of votes for the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon in the party room. [More…]
It was elected 23 years ago. [More…]
As I say, I think it can be expected that a Labor government will be elected at the next general election irrespective of what is said on the Government side of the House. [More…]
We promised that control of petrol would be removed and within 7 weeks of the Liberal-Country Party Government being elected the controls were removed from petrol and they have not applied since. [More…]
If Mr Whitlam is elected to office and keeps all his promises, he will have to find finance for boosting pensions to 25 per cent of average earnings; ending the means test; handing out an immediate $100 million to pensioners and unemployed; reducing sales tax; raising unemployment benefits; extra spending on schools and hospitals; pre-school education; free university education; a national insurance schema; and regenerating urban public transport The inescapable conclusion is that Mr Whitlam will not be cutting income tax; he will be raising it, by 10 per cent or even more. [More…]
I think that to be fair I should include the remark about income tax deductions for life insurance because it also confirms another suspicion that is gaining credibility, namely, that if the Labor Party is elected to office, it will cut out the tax deductibility of life insurance premiums. [More…]
Neither the Federal Council of the Medical Benefits Fund nor the State Executive Committee provides for a single person elected by contributors. [More…]
Medical members of the Association shall be elected by the Council or by a Committee appointed by the Council wilh power in that behalf. [More…]
He knows full well of my servicing of the electorate and that I have not absented myself from my electorate for one day since being elected to this Par liament 9 years ago, except on parliamentary and official business. [More…]
I would like to point out to the honourable member for Sturt that even though he is an Opposition member, as an elected member of this Parliament he is paid the same salary and has the same responsibility as any member of the Government Parties to be in this House when he is required. [More…]
The truth is that Labor has already announced a great number of things it would do if elected to office which are far beyond the people’s capacity to pay for, even with an enormous increase in taxation. [More…]
I am simply asking this House as a democratically elected body how it justifies allowing a sum of $1,200 per annum whilst it allows deductions of $364 for a wife, $208 for the first child and $156 for other children? [More…]
The name of the honourable member’s game is politics, and the way he has played it since he was elected to this House has been to sprinkle all of his speeches - perhaps ‘litter’ would be a better word - with personal venom against individuals on this side of the House. [More…]
Under a government which in 1949 promised to reduce taxes, both direct and indirect, I know that the Treasurer of a couple of months ahead will agree with me that indirect taxation has never been higher in the history of this country since the present Government was elected on a promise to reduce it. [More…]
Government supporters believe that if they can create an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty in the community about the consequences of a 35-hour week they will help to get themselves elected. [More…]
The answer is obvious and rests on the fragmentation, instability and indecisiveness which characterise every parliament which is elected on a proportional representation basis. [More…]
Both were elected under a system of proportional representation. [More…]
But there is a third alternative available and that is the replacement of State-wide constituencies by 5 constituencies within each State, each constituency with 2 senators elected at alternate polls. [More…]
We are here as elected representatives of the people to play our part on the national stage. [More…]
Never has so much information been available to the nation and never have the elected representatives of the nation been so inadequately equipped to cope with it. [More…]
I did not take part in the debate; I had just been elected to this House. [More…]
I argued a similar point on some delegated legislation 5 or 6 years ago, which was long before 1 was elected to this Parliament. [More…]
I would do everything possible to bring about the defeat of a person who in this place has deliberated against the people he is elected to represent in his constituency and to administer through his portfolio. [More…]
I do not shift from the position that the real Aboriginal embassy in this place would be elected Aboriginal members of Parliament, representing their people in this Parliament in precisely the same way as 4 Maori members represent the Maori people in the Parliament of New Zealand. [More…]
They were not elected by them. [More…]
I would sooner chance getting it from this Government and from the government which will be elected at the next election, which will be the same Government. [More…]
That action should be taken by the new government, whenever it is elected. [More…]
We propose joint secretariates in each area of common interest between the States and the Commonwealth to ensure maximum involvement of all elected persons and the public in decision-making. [More…]
Although I had no direct responsibility as an elected member of the Lower House in those days, it was an area in which interest was taken by those who came from the high rainfall areas in South Australia, as I did. [More…]
On 22nd May of this year he was reported as saying in the ‘Daily Telegraph’ that Labor, when elected, would return to the Chifley formula. [More…]
Are honourable members opposite able to say to this Parliament - as responsible individuals in the community, as socalled responsibly elected members of a governmentin office - that there are vast areas of land in Western Australia, South Australia, and Sydney where millionaires have been created overnight who have not placed one road in those areas, who have not dug one trench for sewerage services, who have not done one thing- [More…]
The honourable member for Maribyrnong (Dr Cass) says that if Labor is elected to office he will try to have penalties for drug takers scrapped. [More…]
Australia is active also in the United Nations sphere of drug control and recently was elected as a member of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs. [More…]
The honourable member for Dawson is only the elected member for the electorate of Dawson. [More…]
When Labor is elected to office - on whichever day the Prime Minister chooses to hold the election - this is the policy which will be implemented and it will give the Australian manufacturing industry some idea of our forward planning which it needs to conduct the industry efficiently. [More…]
Members of the Opposition, in particular the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard), have made statements which really do not give the Returned Services League or other interested ex-service organisations a definite indication as to what the policy of the Australian Labor Party in relation to pensions would be if it were elected to power. [More…]
Senator Negus was elected to the other House purely and simply on a platform of the abolition of death taxes. [More…]
Obviously the people agree with him because he was elected as an independent senator purely and simply on that count. [More…]
Seats must be reserved for Aborigines in the Legislative Council for the Northern Territory and the members for those seats should be elected by Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I imagine that, when the Aborigines wish to have representation in the Northern Territory Legislative Council they will nominate their own member and support him and he will be elected. [More…]
There is no justice in the application of this Government’s education policy but there will be justice when the Australian Labor Party is elected to office come 25th November or whichever date the Government chooses. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) is on record as saying that a Lab.v Government, if elected, would reduce the migrant intake still further. [More…]
We must always remember that we in this Parliament are the elected representatives of the people of Australia. [More…]
Do the Articles of Association of the Fund provide that only medical members have a vote in the election of its Council, that medical members shall be elected by the Council or by a committee appointed by the Council, that contributory members shall not be entitled to attend or vote at any general meetings or to receive notice thereof and that 5 medical members personally present shall be a quorum of a general meeting. [More…]
whenever an alteration is made in the number of members of the House of Representatives to be elected for the State; and [More…]
The fact is that it is under the constitution and not under the Electoral Act that Western Australia is entitled to 10 members and not merely to 9 members in the House of Representatives which will be elected in the next few months. [More…]
by leave - I wish to announce that pending the retirement of the honourable member for Mallee (Sir Winton Turnbull), of the Australian Country Party, as the Deputy Government Whip, the honourable member for Calare (Mr England) has been elected to that position as from 10th October. [More…]
I believe that he has never missed a sitting of the House since he was elected in 1946. [More…]
in next to no time’) Mr McMahon suggested that Woden would have its own elected representative within the next 10 years. [More…]
It has failed to carry out this most elementary and fundamental task as the elected government of this nation. [More…]
He elected to take his discharge in Australia for personal reasons with a British bride. [More…]
Surely as an Australian citizen who elected to undertake a full-time defence role career he should receive maximum recognition. [More…]
The effect on the nation’s purse strings would be minimal for in those early days the people selected were few in number. [More…]
Party’s shadow Minister for the Environment, the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren), has promised that the Australian Labor Party would, when elected, give assistance to the purchase of major portions of the Hills face zone and thus provide recreational land and preserve this vital backdrop to the city. [More…]
During the session Australia will be elected a .member of the Security Council. [More…]
Australia is the candidate for the European group of nations and should be elected unopposed, lt is therefore an appropriate time to consider the significance of Australian membership. [More…]
Because the most able people are being attracted into the Army as opposed to the public service and the police force, if you are not careful you can create a situation - I am not being critical of anyone on this - where those in the Army will feel at some stage that they are better qualified to govern the country than those persons who are elected or those persons who are running the public service. [More…]
Another decision that has been made is to have Australia elected to the United Nations Security Council. [More…]
We are doing everything we possibly can and are coming to secret agreement with the Soviet Union so as to get the 3 Soviet votes - as honourable members know, the Soviet Union has 3 votes - necessary to enable Australia to be elected to the Security Council. [More…]
Our policy is for a fully elected Legislative Council in the Northern Territory. [More…]
A fully elected Legislative Council could consist initially of, say, IS or 16 members of which the non-elected members would perhaps be no more than 2 in number. [More…]
I know that by way of explanation, after the conclusion of the speech of the honourable member for Dawson, the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) said that he had not been referring to Australian Labor Party policy generally but to views apparently, as he sees them, of elected Labor Party members in the Legislative Council of the Northern Territory. [More…]
He is the one elected member for the Northern Territory in this chamber and he is a member of the Australian Country Party. [More…]
The demands made were, among other things, for a fully elected Legislative Council; ministerial responsibility and control over the executive and budgetary functions of government; an end to the Federal Government’s veto powers over Northern Territory legislation; Senate representation for the Territory; and a vote for Territorians in Commonwealth referendums. [More…]
As he knows, a joint study group of elected members of the Legislative Council and various senior officials of respective Commonwealth Government departments has been formed. [More…]
That study group concluded its discussions late last year and there was a meeting between 5 Ministers and 5 elected representatives of the Legislative Council on 3rd March this year. [More…]
It ls quite evident that housing is one of the most important problems facing the people of Australia and, of course, the governments, both State and Federal, which are elected by these people. [More…]
It was introduced by the first elected Labor Government of Queensland in 1915 - the T. J. Ryan Labor Government - which introduced the workers dwellings scheme under which a person could buy land on a minimum deposit and a home on a minimum deposit. [More…]
Just before I was elected to the House of Representatives the cost of land in the electorate of Robertson ranged from about $2,000 to $2,500 per block. [More…]
Worse than that, to compound the felony, when I caused inquiries to be made from the Department of Labour and National Service and from Mr John Tilling direct in order to have a copy of the thesis made available to me, he said that he was prepared to do it, but later he rang back to say that he had been directed by a senior officer or by his immediate senior officer in the Department of Labour and National Service not to make it available - to withhold it from the Parliament and from the elected representatives of the people. [More…]
We arrive at the situation that it is suggested that the Queensland free hospital scheme will be abolished unless Labor is elected. [More…]
The Postmaster-General’s Department is abetting the process whereby every person moving into a nev/ suburb or an area of urban or regional development must make a capital contribution to the provision of services which 20 years ago were provided by the community through its elected bodies. [More…]
I have the authority of my Leader to announce here tonight that, as soon as the elections are over, if a Labor government is elected, it will introduce a Bill to give effect to all the things which, tonight, the Minister will use his authority in the House to force a division upon and to force his members on party lines to reject. [More…]
In conclusion, although a Labor Government, if elected in the elections to be held in December, will bring in a Bill along the lines of the amendment that I am now moving, it will be treated only as a stop gap measure. [More…]
31st May 1972, pages 3417-8) and the statement that the remaining organisation in Victoria at present has 3 contributor representatives in - its governing body of 11, (a) are those contributor representatives elected by the vote of all contributors to the fund, (b) are all contributors to the fund advised of their right to vote and provided with a ballot paper and (c) is the number of contributor representatives on the governing body restricted to 3 out of the total of 11 by regulation; if not, how is this ratio of 3 to 1 1 established. ‘ [More…]
Does the Government have any proposal for contributor representation, democratically elected by the right of vote for all contributing members to funds, to be written into the regulations controlling these funds; if not, why not. [More…]
The Association concerned consists of 25 members including 4 contributor representatives elected by contributors present at the annual meeting. [More…]
Whilst the constitution provides for a minimum of one, all 4 could be on the Executive if* elected. [More…]
The procedure followed for the election of office bearers by the Friendly Society referred to by the honourable member ensures that contributor representatives can be elected. [More…]
Assuming that this is so, will the Prime Minister give an assurance that those policies and achievements will be put forward solely by people who are elected by the people of Australia and responsible to the people through this Parliament? [More…]
The proposal is that the Standing Orders be suspended in order to give the Parliament the opportunity to do a simple thing, that is, to declare that it is in favour of the adoption of the Jess Committee’s report, that it rejects the recommendations of certain public servants, and that it, as the elected representatives of the taxpayers who pay the public servants their salaries, has decided that it will accept the advice of its own Committee. [More…]
On 23rd June 1970, almost 2i years ago, 3 elected members of the Northern Territory Legislative Council - Mr Kilgariff, Mr Fisher and Mr Greatorex - came to Canberra on the instructions of the Northern Territory Legislative Council to put forward to the Commonwealth Government certain grievances of the Northern Territory people. [More…]
I say once again that the people of the Northern Territory have to look at these proposals, give them full consideration and make their decision about whether they want any more control at the moment to be given to the Legislative Council or whether time should be given to the Council so that the elected members of the Council and the official members on the Council who assist them can digest the proposals and perhaps get a Legislative Council with greater powers organised and on the road as it were. [More…]
In conclusion, let me say that I do not think that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) helped very much when he prematurely announced that, if the Labor Party were elected to government, the Minister in charge of the Northern Territory would be the current member for the Australian Capital Territory (Mr Enderby). [More…]
The Northern Territory to have a fully elected Legislative Assembly and the question of referred powers to be one for negotiation. [More…]
This Government’s civil aviation policies are dictated by one man - a man who is not elected and is in no way responsible to this Parliament or to the Australian people. [More…]
If this Government is re-elected we will never see the full proposals of the Prime Ministers statement of 26th September. [More…]
The public may rest assured that after the election is over and provided a Labor government is elected - I believe a Labor government will be elected - the Australian Labor Party’s policy of common sense and effective controls over foreign investment will be introduced in the interests of Australian industry, the Australian public and the posterity of the nation as a whole. [More…]
Appropriate provision will be made for the purchase of past non-contributory service by present serving members including those members who in 1948 elected to remain on deferred pay rather than enter the DFRB scheme; [More…]
Tt did not stay long on any occasion it was elected. [More…]
We are mindful of our duties and responsibilities as the elected representatives of the Australian people and strive faithfully to interpret their wishes. [More…]
I did not realise until I was elected to Parliament the immense job I had taken on in representing the Federal electorate of Gellibrand as I wanted it represented, that is conscientiously. [More…]
Having been elected as I was on the Australian Labor Party ticket I took it that I was sent here to do a job and I have taken my position as a job. [More…]
I was elected on a ticket, and having been elected I was there to give the greatest attention and help I could to each and every one of my constituents, irrespective of their political ideology, their religion, their nationality and their station in life. [More…]
There can be few men who have served in this House who would be more entitled to hold the post to which we have elected you unanimously and who would be regarded more highly as a friend as well as a member. [More…]
The deliberations of the House will unquestionably proceed with good spirit and good humour while you hold this high office to which we have unanimously elected you and upon which we all, I am certain, heartily congratulate you. [More…]
Mr Speaker, you have been elected by all members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
I desire to inform the House that the Parliamentary Liberal Party has elected me as its Leader, the honourable member for Flinders (Mr Lynch) as Deputy Leader, the honourable member for Henty (Mr Fox) as Opposition Whip and the honourable member for Angas (Mr Giles) as Deputy Whip. [More…]
I desire to inform the House that the Parliamentary Party of the Australian Country Party has elected me as its Leader, the honourable member for New England (Mr Sinclair) as Deputy Leader and the honourable member for Calare (Mr England) as Whip. [More…]
In 1950, immediately after losing that position, he was again elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly and became Secretary for Mines and Irrigation in 1952. [More…]
He was elected at the byelection caused by his uncle’s death. [More…]
He was elected at a by-election in June 1963. [More…]
He was re-elected in the general elections of 1963. [More…]
He was elected to the Division of Calare in this chamber in 1931. [More…]
I first knew him in 1943 when he was first elected to this House; I campaigned against him unsuccessfully in that year. [More…]
Tom Burke had the satisfaction of seeing his own record of public service carried on by his son, Mr Terry Burke, M.L.A., who is one of the youngest members to be elected to the Western Australian State Parliament. [More…]
He was later elected to the division of Calare and served as the member for Calare from December 1931 until his defeat in September 1940. [More…]
I first got to know Tom Burke when I was elected to this Parliament and he sat next to me on the plane that came from Perth to Canberra. [More…]
When I was first elected to this Parliament Tom Burke was a very valuable adviser to me. [More…]
Mr Bill Riordan was Chairman of Committees when I was first elected and after the retirement of one distinguished member of the Parliament he became Minister for the Navy. [More…]
Like Dr Evatt, he was elected President of the General Assembly of the United Nations. [More…]
I congratulate the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) on being unanimously elected to this very important post. [More…]
It is true that in the course of the election campaign the Prime Minister did give an assurance to the electorate in Tasmania that the Labor Party, if elected to government, would do something positive about the disparity in shipping freight rates and the great difference demonstrated by a comparison between the cost of transporting goods a certain distance in the mainland States and the cost of transporting goods an equal distance between Tasmania and the mainland. [More…]
But it may be of interest to honourable members at this stage if I inform them that approximately 30 per cent of national servicemen have elected to remain in the Services until their period of duty has been completed. [More…]
Of course, those 2 gentlemen have now met their fate, and the people have elected to government a party that will present to them new horizons, aims and ideals. [More…]
This Government, which has been democratically elected by the people of Australia, has come into office at a time when Australian finances are better than they have been for many years. [More…]
They degraded and treated with utter contempt the Parliament of which they were the elected custodians. [More…]
The Government has been active since it was elected in December, But active in whose interest? [More…]
However this outside body, not elected by the Australian people, does in fact have the final say as to what Australia can do. [More…]
“They degraded and treated with utter contempt the Parliament of which they were the elected custodians.’ [More…]
We cannot tolerate the fact that government is by the Federal Conference of the ALP - not elected, not responsible to the people of Australia - while the elected representatives are powerless against its dictates and must wait on its decisions. [More…]
If anybody wants evidence of the determination of the Left to direct and control the elected representatives of the people there is plenty of it today. [More…]
When we on this side of the House talk about democracy we mean the right of the Australian people to tell their elected representatives what they want. [More…]
We were elected on that platform and we will carry out that platform. [More…]
The restriction of free speech is opposed to the principles on which we were elected. [More…]
The minute recorded that it was believed that it was then suitable for the inhabitants of Sydney to minister to their own convenience and comfort, by means of providing, by means of a body elected among themselves, for the repairing, cleansing and lighting the streets, etc., at no greater cost than a rate levied on the houses according to their value. [More…]
Mr Speaker, in expressing my personal pleasure at being elected to this assembly, this august House, I wish to express my sincere thanks to the electors of Fisher. [More…]
I trust that you treat that honour as highly as I do the honour of being elected to this Parliament. [More…]
It is an honour indeed for me to rise and speak tonight for the first time as the member for the electorate of Bendigo, particularly in the knowledge that I am the first Liberal Party member to be elected to represent it. [More…]
I mentioned previously that Bendigo was a city selected for accelerated development by the Victorian State Government. [More…]
In its election campaign the Australian Labor Party promised, if elected, to develop the AlburyWodonga complex as the first step in its concept of urban and regional development. [More…]
I rose tonight to remind honourable members, if I might presume to do so, and particularly honourable members who have just been elected into the Parliament on the other side of the House, of their responsibilities as I see them to the Australian community. [More…]
Some members opposite have been elected to this House from the trade union movement. [More…]
Surely, having led unions, they have some responsibility to the people who elected them and should be able to exercise their influence over members of the unions if they were good enough to be selected to represent them in this national Parliament. [More…]
In that country the Prime Minister is selected by the Party conferences, not by the parliamentary Party, and it is usually necessary for the Party to provide a seat in parliament for that member after he is elected leader of the Party. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party, which now has the privilege of forming a Government in this Parliament, was elected on a policy and platform which was devised by consultations through all organs of the Party and by accepting advice from persons outside the Party who wished to make submissions to the Party. [More…]
To suggest or in any way indicate that this Government, having been elected, should now repudiate its announced policies and the means by which those policies were evolved would be to suggest that the Government of the country could become dishonest. [More…]
I suggest that any man who seeks his Party’s endorsement and stands for election on the policy of that Party and then seeks to repudiate in the Parliament the right of that Party to ask him to carry out the policies on which he was elected is a person not fitted to be a member of this or any other Parliament. [More…]
Both you, Sir, and the honourable member for Corio were elected to the offices you now occupy in this Parliament without opposition by the Opposition parties, and it is reasonable to point out that this is a compliment to you. [More…]
Since I was elected I have received many letters from constituents who are concerned about the continuing and rapid rise in prices. [More…]
As the newly elected member for McMillan and as the only member of the Australian Country Party to have represented that electorate, I appreciate this opportunity to take part in the debate on the Address-in-Reply to the Governor-General’s Speech. [More…]
My sincere congratulations go also to the newly elected Speaker for the very high office that he holds and to the honourable member for Corio (Mr [More…]
I would like to congratulate you, Mr Deputy Speaker, on being elected to your high office and ask you to extend my congratulations to Mr Speaker and the Chairman of Committees. [More…]
Secondly, 1 would like to express to the electors of La Trobe my appreciation at being elected to represent them as part of a Labor Government in this Parliament and to acknowledge the reasons why they made their choice. [More…]
It is abhorrent to our Party as it must be to all concerned Australians, and members of the Parliamentary Labor Party, too, if they made known what was really in their minds, that no group should have the power of direction over the people’s elected representatives in this Parliament. [More…]
We will support the Government if it governs as elected representatives of the people and rejects the influence of its all-powerful machine. [More…]
Even the present Leader of the Opposition was elected to that position by a majority of only one. [More…]
This Labor Government was elected because for the first time in 23 years its policies were accepted by a majority of Australian electors, and for no other reason. [More…]
In line with this the New South Wales Government removed from office without just cause, without consideration and without prior notice, the elected representatives of the Hunter District Water Board and replaced them with ministerial appointees. [More…]
The practice of replacing elected representatives with ministerial appointees has been followed by <<*ner authorities. [More…]
The tragic thing about replacing elected representatives with ministerial appointees is that one takes away from the decision making body the involvement of the public, the right of the people to express their views in the arguments that Iv. [More…]
The reference he made concerned the necessity for the newly elected Government to take action which apparently is somewhat unprecedented. [More…]
At the last Queensland State election the Labor Party promised that if re-elected it would go ahead with the electrification scheme. [More…]
He went on to say that the people’s elected representatives should be the sole deciders of legislation and government policy. [More…]
I would like to thank the constituents of Forrest for having elected me as their representative in this Twenty-eighth Parliament. [More…]
I anticipate that there will be 5 members elected from the Government and there will be 5 members from the Party or sections opposed to the Government. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that at that time I indicated that if a Labor Government were to be elected in December 1972 a Bill providing for such improvements would be introduced this year. [More…]
At the outset I should like you, Mr Deputy Speaker, to convey my congratulations to the honourable member for Sydney (Mr Cope) on being elected to the important position of Speaker of this House. [More…]
In past elections all social security beneficiaries have had to wait anxiously to see which party was elected and then to see what promises it was prepared to keep. [More…]
It had said since about 1953 that it was impossible to do away with the means test, notwithstanding that the Liberal and Country Parties, were elected in 1949 on their promise to abolish the means test, but it found in 1972 that it was possible to abolish it and it did subsequently give some relief to the people who were being penalised by that means test. [More…]
It has announced some beneficial proposals such as rebates on rates which it will introduce if it is re-elected, as I have no doubt it will be. [More…]
In 1966 1 was elected to this House as the representative of an electorate which, although called Sturt, was substantially different from the electorate which 1 now represent. [More…]
The number available for Liberal members who will be elected at the next election is so limited that the only solution will be that we will have to move to the side of the House on which the honourable member for Adelaide now sits and he will have to move back here. [More…]
My advice is that the strength of the Army today - I am referring now to those who are serving as regular soldiers and national servicemen who have elected to complete their period of duty - is over 30,000 and that by June of this year it will be over 31,000. [More…]
This we believe is a basic abrogation of the Government’s probity and integrity as the sovereign and elected representative of the Australian people. [More…]
As I said before I was elected to this House, and 1 say it now, those who attempt to make industrial relations in this country a party political issue and seek to score party political points out of the resolution of conflicts between employers and employees are doing a grave disservice to Australia as a whole and will impede its development. [More…]
The Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns) admitted 2 weeks ago that our rate of growth is not enough to support the program on which his Government had been elected. [More…]
Who would have thought in 1949 when Ben Chifley lost 12 seats, including the seats of 4 Ministers, that it would be the end of 1972 before another Labor Government was elected. [More…]
Although I was Opposition Whip for 17 years, which is a record period for a person to hold the office of Whip of a major Party in the Federal Parliament - when Labor was elected to government I did not desire to contest the position of Government Whip - and although I found myself completely and fully occupied as Opposition Whip, it was maddening sitting in Opposition to see the Liberal Party-Country Party coalition returned to power with monotonous regularity at 9 elections. [More…]
Twenty-seven new members were elected to the Parliament, mostly men under 45 years of age. [More…]
There are 16 new Labor members, 8 new Liberal members and 3 new Country Party members elected to the Federal Parliament. [More…]
When the Australian people elected us to Government, and turned out of office the Liberal-Country Party coalition they accepted a whole new range of ideals and ideas and of policies and objectives. [More…]
As one who served a record term in this Parliament as Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees I know some of the responsibilities, joys, trials and tribulations of such a position and I am sure that the gentlemen who have been elected to these 2 high offices have the good wishes of all honourable members in this House. [More…]
I am not casting any doubts upon their right to do as they like, but I believe the people should ponder on these things and reflect on the type of government they have elected and ask themselves: ‘Is this the type of example which should be set for my children by the supreme authority in this country?’ [More…]
Finally I mention the stand-over tactics adopted by ALP organisations such as State councils and Federal conferences with regard to the elected members of this Parliament. [More…]
In other words, they tell the elected members that they will do as they are told. [More…]
It is vital that a Labor Government be elected in November. [More…]
On 22nd February the Minister for Overseas Trade and Minister for Secondary Industry (Dr J. F. Cairns) said that Australia’s growth rate was not sufficient to support the program on which the Labor Government was elected. [More…]
Again, because it is the only body whose members are elected and can have their mandates withdrawn by all the people, so it is the Parliament which is the only democratic body. [More…]
The whole essence of parliamentary government is that it is government of the people by the people’s elected representatives. [More…]
Most of the older members will agree that it is the aim of most candidates when they stand for election to be elected. [More…]
If re-elected the process continues. [More…]
The Minister for Transport (Mr Jones) has indicated that he will make public the results of the study of the Bureau of Transport Economics, a matter which was referred to earlier by my colleague, the newly elected honourable member for Denison (Mr Coates). [More…]
The average person in the street - I hand this out as a pleasant warning at this stage - wonders who he is, why he has been elected to the position he holds and what his job is when he treats the Parliament of the nation in such a flippant fashion. [More…]
I hope that in the future he will do his job properly without seeing a necessity to buffoon and try to ridicule and belittle people, some of whom are perhaps not as adequately equipped as he is to stand up for their rights but simply are people sincerely trying to do a job which they have been sent by the people who have elected them to this Parliament to do. [More…]
It is apposite at the moment to refer to the fact that Brisbane may now be 75 per cent sewered but when Alderman Clem Jones was first elected Lord Mayor of Brisbane it was 40 per cent sewered. [More…]
But for years we have seen the spectacle of leading members of this Parliament - those who now sit on the Government benches - advocating rule by demonstration, rule by violent protest and in fact the circumvention of the democratic processes by which a government is elected and given a mandate to carry out its policies and by which the people can change that government if its actions no longer appeal to the majority. [More…]
The Government was elected on a promise to give the Legislative Council greater autonomy so that the people could have more say in their own affairs but the Government is legislating in this House without any reference to the Northern Territory Legislative Council. [More…]
Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. [More…]
It implied that somehow, magically, government would be made more open in supplying information and in sharing with the people - and surely with the elected representatives of the people - the decision making process. [More…]
What is worse, this Government has been guilty of a great deal of cavalier treatment and arrogance in its dealings with the elected representatives in the Parliament. [More…]
When this Government was first elected almost every Premier in Australia, irrespective of their politics, accepted the fact that the people of this country had expressed their will through the ballot box and that a Labor government bad been elected. [More…]
1 am of the opinion that that measure and the Bill before the House confirm that the newly elected Government has a conscientious concern for the Aboriginal people and that it fully and unequivocally accepts the responsibility of giving the fullest opportunities to these people who have for so long been discriminated against. [More…]
These 27 men who act as Ministers are elected by their fellows, supported by their fellows and they jointly make decisions to help govern the country. [More…]
He was elected to the Ministry of the McMahon Government - which is no great credit - by reason of the fact that he complied with the requirement that you had to be very good and always bow to the Prime Minister and you were accordingly selected. [More…]
When the present Parliament resumed the present Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) selected him, I think, for a shadow Ministry, but subsequently the Liberal Party had a vote on who should be on the front bench and now the honourable member is back in the back blocks. [More…]
horrible knowledge that the honourable member for Grayndler had been elected to the Ministry. [More…]
It was the economically powerless who elected this Government to office. [More…]
The Government will ignore the proper claims of those people who elected them to office. [More…]
We make no apologies for recommending to the Parliament and to the people of Australia that members of Parliament receive an adequate salary commensurate with the importance of the task they are elected to perform. [More…]
The quality ot our national management is dependent on the quality of the elected members of this Parliament. [More…]
They have occurred only when the present holders of those positions were elected to them. [More…]
Three times the Prime Minister confirmed that fact and yet, in such a short time after being elected to Government, the Prime Minister, the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) and the honourable members who support him have denied his own statements. [More…]
I suggest it does because people are sent here - and this is the distinctive characteristic of this place - by the people, because they are elected; they are sent by their constituents. [More…]
Labor was not elected to power to single out for privileged treatment the members of the unions which support it and traditionally contribute to election funds. [More…]
Half of the members in this House are elected by people who do not even know the names of the members and if they saw them they surely would not vote for them. [More…]
It prevents this from happening by saying that there must be at least 5 members elected in each State. [More…]
Members on both sides of the Parliament must face the electors, must fight to be elected as a representative and must struggle to be elected to this place. [More…]
What was the situation when this Government was elected? [More…]
But I think it should be the responsibility of a House of Parliament to seek, to the extent that it is within its control, to ensure that persons who are elected to this Parliament represent fairly equal numbers of people. [More…]
The only basis upon which one can argue is that the Labor Party put this matter in its policy speech and was elected on that policy. [More…]
If that story had any substance, what about the honourable member for Riverina and his promise during the election campaign that if elected the Labor Party would make available $500m at an interest rate of 3 per cent per annum for loan purposes for primary producers. [More…]
On 3rd August 1957 when the present Government was elected in Queensland- known popularly as Black Saturday - the now governing members were so surprised that they were not quite sure what to do for a while. [More…]
There are many things that can be done to bring country people into closer contact with their elected representatives. [More…]
He declared that Labor when elected will make full payment to fruit growers for all fruit delivered within 2 weeks of being elected to Government. [More…]
It is not much good anybody saying anything about what the previous Government promised, because my speech tonight has been concentrated wholly and solely on the promises of the Australian Labor Party, its members and its Leader when they were in Opposition and I have shown the lack of performance by this Government since it was elected to office. [More…]
My attitude as an elected representative is that the electoral rights of people of Australia are paramount and these must receive proper consideration if we are to suggest that the electoral system of this nation is a democratic one. [More…]
As a result of the worst gerrymander ever, the Government of Queensland was elected on 42i per cent of the State vote, with 47 seats. [More…]
Tasmania with 390,000 people elected 5 members to this House. [More…]
The honourable member for McMillan is a newly elected member of this House. [More…]
I am not surprised that he supports this principle because he was elected to this House from a country seat with 16.6 per cent of the primary vote. [More…]
It will carry no weight with the Minister for Northern Development (Dr Patterson) and the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) or at least with the people who elected them on the last occasion but will think better of it on the next, because they know that they have now elected to this Parliament a Government that is concerned only with votes in large cities and is not concerned with the remoter country towns, provincial cities or the people who live in the rural communities - not just the farmers but the totality of people who live outside the great metropolitan areas. [More…]
It is elected on a restricted franchise, with the State divided into 5 electoral districts. [More…]
These districts each elect 4 members, 2 being elected every 3 years. [More…]
1 might add that the numerically smaller electorates were held by LCL members and that the numerically larger electorates had elected Labor members. [More…]
This Government was in part elected on a plank of open government which means allowing people within the Parliament to say what they feel they need to say, and making known to the people of Australia the various decisions of the Government and the background to those decisions. [More…]
In the 4 weeks of this Parliament on only 2 or 3 occasions has the curtailment of a debate occurred and this was simply because members opposite were frustrating the duly elected Government of Australia, which has an overwhelming mandate to legislate in the interests of the people. [More…]
I congratulate those who were successful in getting their man elected. [More…]
The experience of attending the conference was all the more happy because on our return the Labor Party was elected to its rightful place in this chamber. [More…]
Firstly, let me remind the House that this new Federal Labor Government was elected on 2nd December last, just 4 months ago last Monday, the day before yesterday. [More…]
Let me further remind the House that the Ministry was elected 10 days later, on 18th December. [More…]
Members of this House do not represent only those electors who voted for them or even just the electors; they also represent those who do not have the vote those migrants who have elected not to take out Australian citizenship and the thousands of children too young to vote. [More…]
Any greater variation than 20 per cent would be in conflict with the constitutional requirement common to both Australia and the United States of America that members of the House of Representatives should be elected by the people. [More…]
This does not mean they should be elected by privileged groups or privileged paddocks but by the people. [More…]
I believe that this approach to the problem of representation in this Parliament, as portrayed in this clause, is the only way in which a member can effectively discharge his responsibility and perform the functions for which he has been elected to this Parliament. [More…]
Members of Parliament are elected by people who are entitled to vote to select the government to govern the country in the interests of the people. [More…]
It is only in this way also that the officers of the Public Service will be able to make sure that they translate into action the policy requirements of those elected to the responsible task of governing the country. [More…]
When you were elected to office, Mr Speaker, I spoke briefly and said that I believed you were a man who could carry put the job, that you had displayed an understanding of Parliament during your manyyears here and that provided you dispensed justice without bias and impartially you would have the support of this side of the Parliament. [More…]
The first is that chairmen of House committees of this Parliament should be elected by the committees themselves and not, as it were, by the Executive. [More…]
In fact, I can recall when I was a member of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs I was elected as chairman. [More…]
In those days the Government members elected the chairman and the Opposition members the Deputy Chairman. [More…]
I was elected as chairman but I do not believe that at that time had the chairman been elected on the nomination of the Prime Minister the Committee would have had the same chairman. [More…]
The members of that Committee have now elected the honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr McKenzie) in his stead. [More…]
The Privileges Committee has not yet elected its chairman but it has always been the practice of that Committee when a matter is referred to it to meet and elect one of its members as chairman. [More…]
The disappointment may have been because of Australian Labor Party promises to the Northern Territory concerning political and constitutional reform, back in the days of Arthur Calwell who referred to a fully elected Legislative Council having referred powers. [More…]
When the Minister visited the Northern Territory before the election he said that he saw future political independence in the Northern Territory as being part of its relationship with the Federal Parliament, but that this would only be defined after talks with local elected representatives if Labor won power. [More…]
I have mentioned only 3 of the 1 1 elected members of the Legislative Council. [More…]
I thought that the idea was to work towards having a fully elected Council. [More…]
I say to the honourable member for Macarthur (Mr Kerin) that the Northern Territory has an elected legislature capable of setting up its own committees of inquiry. [More…]
The Northern Territory Legislative Council has 11 elected members - not enough - and 6 appointed official members. [More…]
I hope that the Minister will allow discussions to take place between the Government and the elected members of that Council to enable further progress from where the previous Government left off. [More…]
I turn now to the fragmentation which has taken place since this Government was elected to power. [More…]
This has been fiercely opposed, and rightly so, by the elected members of the Northern Territory Legislative Council. [More…]
I say that because only the committee members - only the members who have worked together - know the value of the man who is elected as chairman. [More…]
This was the first ministerial review of NAFTA since the 2 new Labor governments were elected to office. [More…]
Why should it be possible for an Australian who has elected to live abroad almost permanently to be able to return to Australia for a little time and double his pension - get the 2 pensions? [More…]
At that meeting 12 people were elected to a committee but he did not ask one of them for an opinion. [More…]
A person who exercises management functions, or functions relating to the making, alteration or enforcement of rules, or who occupies a position with duties substantially the same as those of an elected office, becomes the holder of an ‘office’ for the purpose of the Act and, subject to certain qualifications, will have to be elected by the rank and file. [More…]
The Bill provides that no officer elected by the rank and file may be dismissed during his period of office unless he is guilty of misappropriation of union funds, a grave breach of rules or gross misbehaviour or gross neglect of duty. [More…]
I also agree with what the Government proposes to do in regard to the question of the returnee - in other words those personnel who have elected to live outside of our country but who think that by returning to Australia for a short period, perhaps a few days, they could qualify for the pension. [More…]
When I was first elected to this House he said to me: ‘You will get a lot of advice here. [More…]
While some of the statistics he gave may be correct, as I understand the position it was the Premier of New South Wales who initiated the request for a special allocation of finance after the Labor Government was elected in December. [More…]
The general substance of the principle, as I understand it, is that a committee chairman should be elected by the committee itself rather than nominated from outside of the committee. [More…]
It is to be hoped that this enticement, which could well have the effect of encouraging people into the Army, will allow the Government to keep its earlier promise to the people of Queensland that if it was elected on 2nd December it would station another battalion in Townsville in north Queensland. [More…]
To date the designation ‘Chief Minister’ has been an unofficial title that has given recognition to the position within the Papua New Guinea Ministry of the Minister elected by his colleagues, to be Deputy Chairman of the [More…]
If a person is elected to the Parliament he is supposed to perform his functions as expeditiously as possible. [More…]
It is, however, completely impractical and denies the right of properly elected union officials to negotiate responsibly on behalf of union members who have entrusted them with that authority and responsibility. [More…]
I would have thought that the first thing that the Minister would have sought to do with this legislation would have been to protect elected union officers at the senior levels from the grass fires that can take place because of unwarranted and unjustifiable direct action by persons such as shop stewards taking the affairs of particular disputes into their own hands. [More…]
The proposed amendment to the Act seeks to make some protection, and I believe it is very good protection, available to those people because if that protection does not exist we have the sort of situation which the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and those he repre sents - those who employ - want, that is, a situation where they have a completely subservient work force in their factories and men and women who are disinclined to take any action or to complain about any action taken against them for fear that their elected representatives and they in turn would be dismissed. [More…]
He seems to overlook the fact - if he had had any practical experience of this he would know - that in all industrial matters the people on the job, the union members, will express their point of view, in fact have expressed their point of view, and their elected officials, whether shop stewards or full time officials of the union are there to do the bidding of the members. [More…]
Insofar as the shop steward is concerned, we have to realise that this individual is democratically elected. [More…]
The relevant Act provides a procedure by which the people who represent the members of the union are elected in a proper way. [More…]
Under the rules the person who is elected is not a free agent. [More…]
It is an insult to those people who are properly elected to those positions to be accused of being instruments of anybody. [More…]
What is in fact happening here is that legitimate protection is being given for properly and duly elected officers of unions. [More…]
They would be those who elected him and who are at the moment keeping him here. [More…]
I believe that as the elected member I have a right to know. [More…]
It was elected on that policy. [More…]
The Government was elected to office some S months ago with a commitment to put into effect a large number of reforms. [More…]
The action taken by a small number of people in the circumstances 1 have just described, people not elected - 1 emphasise this - by the electors of Australia, would take out of the hands of the Government of this country the proper conduct of our national and international affairs. [More…]
where the members entitled to vote at the election are some or all of the members of a branch of the organisation, the committee of management of that branch, may, notwithstanding the rules of the organisation, within the period of 12 months that commenced on the closing date for nominations in the election, appoint an eligible person to hold the office for a period not exceeding the remainder of that period of 12 months, but a person shall be elected to the office in accordance with the rules of the organisation within, or as soon as practicable after, the period of that appointment as if the holder of the office had died and the appointment shall cease upon the election of such a person. [More…]
They are elected indirectly by the membership through what could be described as a collegiate system. [More…]
If they choose to offer themselves as candidates they have an equal opportunity with other Australians to be elected as members of this Parliament, the State parliaments or local government councils provided that they get enough people to vote for them. [More…]
The new Minister for Immigration was elected to this House in 1969 and set about convincing the Italian Embassy, the Maltese High Commission and anyone in the migrant community whose ear he could blow into that he was a great worker. [More…]
They will then be able to form their own conclusions about whether I was correct in saying that the honourable member was elected by wool growers to this House by mistake. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether an article published in the RSL magazine ‘Mufti’ prior to the general elections, indicated an undertaking by the Australian Labor Party that, when elected, it would recognise British ex-servicemen under the Repatriation Act. [More…]
The telegrams support the collegiate system of electing officials - a system which means that delegates elected by the rank and fi’e elect the officials or certain of the officials. [More…]
This issue must be decided on the basis of the views of the people of this House, who were elected into the House to express their views. [More…]
This is a time for a solemn appraisal of our responsibility as elected members of the people. [More…]
Yet within the first 6 sitting days of this Parliament 2 newly-elected Labor members from Victoria - the honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr McKenzie) and the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Lamb) - gave notice thai they would introduce this Bill to legalise abortion on demand. [More…]
Mrs Coxsedge, a Labor Party candidate for Balwyn, has stated she would introduce a similar bill if elected. [More…]
I have in the back of my mind a newspaper article which appeared yesterday wherein the Minister - let him deny it - said that he is concerned about the cities of Sydney and Melbourne because they are the cities that allowed the Government to be elected as the Government of Australia. [More…]
I add that I was a State member of Parliament before I was elected to this House some years ago and, I received no such return on my contributions to the State superannuation fund. [More…]
The establishment of a fourth university in Victoria has been contemplated for a number of years and at the time of the Victorian State elections in 1970 both the major parties announced their intention to establish a fourth university if elected. [More…]
It is elected by the people in the same way as members are elected to this Parliament. [More…]
It buys electricity in bulk from the Electricity Authority of New South Wales and that electricity is distributed to the people under a very restricted charter of control by the elected representatives of the people. [More…]
I went on to say that in the policy speech by present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) prior to the 2nd December election he indicated that if elected to form a government, his government would establish an Australian Schools Commission. [More…]
It is not for us to judge the attitudes of people who have been elected to lead their various States, but I want to make a plea for national unity in this matter. [More…]
Energy is a diminishing asset If the Government of the nation does not act to protect the rights of all the people of Australia through legislation of this kind it will have betrayed the people it was elected to represent and to serve. [More…]
We are delegates and representatives of the Australian people elected to speak on their behalf in the national interest and not in the interests of the States. [More…]
As part of the answer to this concern and as the new member for La Trobe, elected as part of the new Labor Government, I issued a questionnaire in February of this year to principals of all schools in the electorate, private and government, primary and secondary, that cover the area south of Lilydale. [More…]
It is what the previous Government promised the people of Australia it would do if it was elected in Decemberlast year. [More…]
The provisions of the Bill are to (a) provide for 2 members of the House of Representatives for the Australian Capital Territory elected on the basis of single member electorates, with effect from the first sitting of the Twenty-ninth Parliament; (b) provide for full voting rights for both members for the Australian Capital Territory with all the powers, immunities and privileges held by other members of the House of Representatives; (c) divide the Australian Capital Territory into 2 single member electorates, of which one electorate shall embrace part of the Australian Capital Territory proper and the other electorate shall embrace the remaining part of the Australian Capital Territory plus the Jervis Bay territory - to be effective immediately following the expiry or dissolution of the Twenty-eighth Parliament; and, (d) provide - (i) for the setting up of a distribution committee, and (ii) for the inviting of suggestions and objections and preparation of a report to Parliament, along similar lines to that provided for the distribution of a State into electoral divisions. [More…]
Of course there are 8 elected Advisory Councillors for the Australian Capital Territory but these worthy members can do not more than advise the Minister in local matters. [More…]
However, because a doubt exists about the matter, the Government considers that the wisest course is to defer the election of the additional member until the next general elections for the House of Representatives, particularly as separate legislation is being introduced to provide for 2 senators for the Australian Capital Territory to be elected before that time. [More…]
The Bill provides for the election of 2 senators each for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory and that such senators have the same powers, immunities and privileges as senators representing the States; that the first election of Territory senators be held at the same time as the next Senate elections in the several States or at the same time as the next general elections for members of the House of Representatives, if such is held before or in conjunction with the next Senate elections; that the term of the first Territory senators be from the date of their election until the eve of polling day for the ensuing general election for members of the House of Representatives; that after the first election for Territory senators, elections be held at the same time as the general elections for members of the House of Representatives; that after the first election of Territory senators, the terms of Territory senators be the period between each House of Representatives election; and for the Territory senators to be elected under the same system of proportional representation as that currently applicable to the election of senators representing the States, except in the case of a single casual vacancy when such vacancy shall be filled by the holding of a by-election adopting the procedures used for filling a single casual vacancy for a State senator, as far as may be applicable. [More…]
The Prime Minister in presenting the Labor Party policy at the last Federal election made it clear that further representation would be given to the Territories if Labor were elected. [More…]
Is it not strange that there is not one elected representative of either Territory in the Senate to expound the case for the local inhabitants? [More…]
It would appear then to be more democratic to have an even number elected each time for each Territory thus following the pattern of the major parties providing that each would have a representative in the Senate. [More…]
Both senators will be elected every time there is a general election of the House of Representatives. [More…]
In fact, the substance of this matter is the same as that of matters that I have proposed for discussion in this Parliament for the 7 years immediately before this new Govern’ ment was elected. [More…]
He declared that Labor when elected will make full payment to fruit growers for all fruit delivered within 2 weeks of being elected to Government. [More…]
It is the potential ability of local government to provide for the immediate access of directly elected representatives to a community which gives it this democratic quality once described by Harold Laski as *the genius of place’. [More…]
Indeed the honourable member would know that earlier this year and towards the end of last year I indicated after this Government was elected that this would be one of the things that we would want to rectify at what I hoped would be a fairly early stage. [More…]
Section 25 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act provides, amongst other things, that the Governor-General may issue a proclamation directing a redistribution of a State into divisions whenever an alteration is made in the number of members of the House of Representatives to be elected for the State. [More…]
On 25 October 1972, in an address to the annual conference of the Local Government Association of New South Wales in Canberra, the Prime Minister referred again to the way in which he, if elected, was proposing to get finance to the assistance of local government bodies. [More…]
Of course we have the occasional situation in which a particular policy that is mentioned in a policy speech or made an issue in an election campaign is so much in the forefront of things, is so vital an issue and the parties are so much in conflict about it, that the party which is elected can truly be said to have a mandate to carry out that policy which it espoused during the election campaign. [More…]
However, it is one of a number of important issues which were put before the Australian people and I think it is fair to say that the Australian people would be entitled to expect this Government to carry out its promise when elected to power. [More…]
However, having said that and given that warning as to the possible implications of this Bill, I come back to the point that I believe that councils and the Australian people are entitled to expect funds as a result of the promises that were given to them by the Government which they elected. [More…]
Government elected by the people ought to be given the opportunity of carrying out its promise to provide it. [More…]
3,125 had either made an election to continue their service until the expiry of 18 months or had elected to continue their service as Australian Regular Army soldiers. [More…]
1,172 had elected to be discharged but had not, at that time, been processed. [More…]
It is expected that most of the national servicemen who have elected continued service will complete their initial engagement. [More…]
National servicemen were given the facts regarding additional benefits which would be available to those who elected to complete their service. [More…]
It is clear that the present Government was elected to office with a commitment to introduce legislation incorporating the principles included in this Bill. [More…]
Since the present Government was elected in Victoria it has constructed a total of 57,000 commission homes and has made 34,000 of them available for home ownership. [More…]
I did see the report which appeared in the Press suggesting that 12 .personnel had elected to opt out of the exercise which, as I stressed yesterday, is in fact a naval exercise. [More…]
Since this Government took office last December and these honourable gentlemen being elected to the Ministry they have tackled this problem with a great deal of zeal and enterprise. [More…]
Through its taxing power, it has raised this money from Victoria and other States, and is merely returning capital to be applied through the elected State Government apparatus. [More…]
Five months after the Government was elected we find economists resorting to the solution of cutting back on public expenditure at a time when this Government is meeting problems and issues which cere clearly put before it as the major issues at the last election campaign. [More…]
Clause 5 provides that the representation of the Territory in the House of Representatives shall be by 2 elected members. [More…]
I am not opposed in principle to the alteration of the terms for which senators are elected. [More…]
However, while I was Attorney-General, I sought to devise a scheme by which this could be done and I presented a paper in which, with some variation of what had been proposed in 1959 by the Committee, a scheme was propounded which would make it possible for senators to be elected for about 6 years - 2 successive House of Representatives terms - still being elected in succession, overlapping each other, and so that always, the elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives would be synchronised. [More…]
I am reminded that as long ago as 1970 the then Prime Minister spoke during a by-election in which 1 was elected to this House in support of the proposition that the size of the Australian Capital Territory was such - I quote him loosely because I do not have his exact words in front of me - that it either was or shortly would be ready for increased representation. [More…]
There is as much chance in the Northern Territory of 2 Country Party representatives being elected as there are of 2 Labor Party representatives being elected in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
The simple truth of the matter is that the honourable gentleman asked in his speech - honourable members will recall the dulcet language in which he asked this question - ‘Is it not strange that there is not one elected representative of either Territory in the Senate to expound the case for the local inhabitants?’ [More…]
The members of the Legislative Council in that Territory are elected by the Territorians. [More…]
We heard of the promises that the Australian Labor Party would move more quickly than the former Government to give the people of the Northern Territory a greater interest in their own affairs and that an immediate move would be made for the Northern Territory to be controlled by a fully elected Legislative Council. [More…]
Since the Minister has been in charge of the Department of the Northern Territory, instead of moving towards a fully elected Council he has removed 3 government members from the Council but has replaced them with 3 other government members. [More…]
The Government members were able to force through the Council only a week or so ago a move to freeze the transfer of land from leasehold to freehold despite the fact that every elected member but one voted against the proposition. [More…]
I believe that the word ‘extent’ properly refers to the numbers and that the word ‘terms’ probably refers to the length of the term for which members are elected. [More…]
He should have remained throughout that term without a vote and then should have gone to election when we would have had a member elected who had voting rights, that matter being determined by the Northern Territory. [More…]
It was a piece of absolutely unscrupulous practice on the part of the Government which the honourable gentleman supported to confer on a man rights to which he had not been elected. [More…]
The honourable gentleman comes from a State which does not even have an elected upper House, and his side of politics has deliberately contrived that situation. [More…]
I repeat that the conferring of the right to vote in this House on the member of the Northern Territory when it was done in mid-term and not as a condition of the election in which he was originally elected was one of the most disgraceful episodes in the electoral history of this country. [More…]
At its meeting last night, the Conference carried a motion supporting the establishment of two Senate seats for the A.C.T., both to be elected at the same time. [More…]
They will be taking their place in the Senate but they will not be elected at Senate elections. [More…]
The Government has not repealed the National Service Act primarily because it wishes to ensure preservation of the rights of those men who were serving at the date the Government assumed office, including those who have elected to continue their service under the provisions of the National Service Act. [More…]
The present Labor Government promised unequivocally while in opposition that if it was elected to power the ANL would be directed to take over the King Island service and would negotiate with the owners of the Straitsman. [More…]
I did that on 18 December, the day that I was elected as a Minister. [More…]
There is no doubt that the Prime Minister is not a man of his word, and the country is now starting to understand that it has elected- [More…]
The Bill provides that when the school is fully operational the Council will consist of 5 members appointed by the Governor-General, the Director of the school, 2 members elected by the staff from among their number, 2 students elected by the student body, and 5 members elected by Convocation of the school. [More…]
This is one of the programs mentioned by the Leader of the Australian Labor Party in his policy speech and one of the platforms upon which the Australian Labor Party was elected to office. [More…]
by leave - Mr Speaker, next Saturday, 2 June, it will be 6 months since this Government was elected to office. [More…]
Under no circumstances and at no time now or in the future should we attempt to impose our will on the people of Papua New Guinea or their elected representatives. [More…]
In 1917 he was elected to the Victorian Branch Conference of the Labor Party as a delegate and attended almost every conference from that time onwards. [More…]
He was elected to the Victorian Central Executive of the Australian Labor Party in 1 926 and was subsequently elected to the Melbourne City Council as the last alderman in that city in 1939. [More…]
As has been indicated, he was elected to the Federal Parliament in 1940 and became Minister for Information under Prime Minister John Curtin. [More…]
He always had an ambition to lead the Party and nobody deserved more than Arthur the honour bestowed on him by his colleagues when he was elected Leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party in March 1960. [More…]
There were 2 men who were extremely kind to me when I was first elected to this House. [More…]
Mr Calwell when I was first elected to this place. [More…]
Earlier this year he was almost elected leader of his Party. [More…]
My question concerns the Prime Minister’s statement in a recent television interview that the Government’s raid on the headquarters of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation was the greatest mistake that the present Government has made since it was elected to office. [More…]
If they were elected, will he supply details of how the election was conducted. [More…]
1 ) The rates of income tax which apply to a primary producer who has not elected to withdraw from- the averaging system are: [More…]
During the previous session of Parliament, in the short time which had elapsed since this Government was elected to office, I introduced 3 major Bills. [More…]
Our intentions were publicised before the last elections at which the people elected an Australian Labor Party government. [More…]
The Bill is drafted to ensure that a person who so elected would not suffer disadvantage. [More…]
Since this Government was elected it has endeavoured to give the fullest possible opportunity for private members in this Parliament to express their views on subjects with which they are concerned. [More…]
Government go hiking around overseas, and I hope that this Opposition will make sure that it realises that its functions, if it is elected as the Government of this country, remains to govern the nation, and I hope that it does not try to get this House up when it should be responsibly carrying out its job on behalf of the nation. [More…]
We will call the tune because we have been elected by the Australian people to run this country. [More…]
It seems to mean that this Parliament should not complain if statements are not made initially in the House of the elected representatives of the people of Australia. [More…]
It is not parliamentary government; it is not government by the elected representatives of the people. [More…]
Perhaps it means an incursion into and a usurping of the rights and powers of the Australian State Governments which, incidentally, are elected by the same voters who elected this Government to office. [More…]
Or perhaps it relates to debate in this House, which I understand is the forum of the elected representatives of the Australian people. [More…]
To improve the quality of life is perhaps the central and basic theme on which this Government was elected and the central and basic theme on which this Government has acted so far. [More…]
Guinea has been a deliberate one in a continuing process of transferring responsibility to where it rightly belongs - with the elected representatives of the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
On the timing of independence, the Council noted Australia’s view that there are 2 elements involved in the determination of the question of independence: The view of Australia and the views of the people of Papua New Guinea as expressed through their elected representatives in the House of Assembly. [More…]
As if that were not sufficient, he went on to suggest that over recent years the party polling the majority of votes has always been elected to government in this Parliament. [More…]
In each election the minority votes of the population of Australia elected the majority of members to the Parliament. [More…]
The first is that there should be a redistribution whenever an alteration is made in the number of members of the House of Representatives to be elected for a State. [More…]
As I said on a previous occasion, I was the first elected member of this House to take the oath of allegiance to Her Majesty the Queen. [More…]
A senator from Western Australia was the first member of the Parliament to take the oath of allegiance, but I, being elected in a by-election in 1952, was the first member of the House of Representatives to take the oath of allegiance to the present Queen. [More…]
We are not elected to this Parliament to pass laws by gallup poll; we are elected to this Parliament to exercise our judgment, to determine what we believe is best and to cast our votes accordingly. [More…]
I believe that the people of Australia made a mistake last December when they elected an ALP government. [More…]
Does the Government propose a fully elected Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory, with the question of referred powers to be one of negotiation. [More…]
It is a responsibility of a government elected on certain policies to bring those policies into operation as soon as possible. [More…]
It is not the pledge the Government was elected on. [More…]
It was elected on a lie, and here it is in black and white in the Prime Minister’s speech. [More…]
He was elected on 17 per cent of the primary vote. [More…]
From memory, not one member of the Country Party has ever won more than 50 per cent of the primary votes before being elected to this Parliament. [More…]
A couple of years ago he was elected on 27 per cent of the primary vote. [More…]
If I might instruct the Leader of the House, who is meant to be in charge of these matters, the whole idea is that under the preferential voting system nobody is elected until he has gained 50 per cent of the vote. [More…]
Under that system people would be elected left, right and centre without receiving 50 per cent of the vote, so let us not be carried away with this nonsense that he goes on with every time there is a crowd in the gallery during school holidays. [More…]
The honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) pointed out in this debate this morning that, following the previous Government’s announcement that it would continue aid to the independent schools at the rate of 20 per cent of the cost of educating the children in the state system, the Prime Minister, then Leader of the Opposition, said that a Labor government, if elected, would continue aid at the rate at which it was then being given. [More…]
Provision will be made to strengthen further the democratic processes in relation to union elections by providing that all full time federal officers in an organisation must be elected by direct vote of the members of the organisation and that the only federal officers who can be elected by the collegiate system shall be part time officers of an organisation’s federal management committee, provided that the officers of the management committee itself are elected by direct vote of the rank and file. [More…]
The people who supported them over the years finally despaired of any chance of getting them to implement the policies on which they had been elected- [More…]
On 2 December, a new government was elected. [More…]
From memory, not one member of the Country Party has ever won more than 50 per cent of the primary votes before being elected to this Parliament. [More…]
A couple of years ago he was elected on 27 per cent of the primary vote. [More…]
This means that of 20 members of the Country Party, 14, or 70 per cent of them, were elected on less than 50 per cent of the primary votes, and the figures ranged from 16.4 per cent to around 47 per cent or 48 per cent. [More…]
I was surprised last night to hear the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth), the former Minister for Social Services, state that the Labor Party had said that when elected it would wipe out the means test. [More…]
I am sure that had the former Government been re-elected it would have honoured its promise. [More…]
not one member of the Country Party has ever won more than SO per cent of the primary votes before being elected to this Parliament. [More…]
The Court is less representative of the Australian people than are their elected parliamentary representatives. [More…]
From memory, not one member of the Country Party has ‘ever won more than SO per cent of the primary votes before being elected to this Parliament. [More…]
He spoke in general form only and said that no ohe member of the Country Party had ever won more than 50 per cent of the primary votes before being elected to this Parliament. [More…]
I refer specifically to the charges he has made relating to the number of honourable members particularly of the Australian Country Party, who have been elected having won not more than 50 per cent of the primary votes on the first count. [More…]
I do not intend to canvass the situation of honourable members who have been elected. [More…]
Party in each of the last 3 general elections - without going back any further - have been elected with more than 50 per cent of the vote after the distribution of preferences, whether one takes it as formal votes or as primary votes. [More…]
I believe that the Minister has thrown disrespect on all honourable members of this House who were elected by a valid electoral system which has been followed by this Parliament under laws properly adopted by this Parliament. [More…]
He, as Leader of this House, should know better than to cast aspersion on members who are rightly elected under the laws of this Parliament to serve their constituencies. [More…]
Every member of this House has been validly elected. [More…]
Every member here is elected under a system of proportional representation which enables each individual elector of Australia to be given a fair, adequate and open opportunity to cast his primary vote and his preference vote. [More…]
The Minister for Northern Development (Dr Patterson) was elected by the Caucus to be a Minister. [More…]
‘First of all, there is evidence of an unbelievable antipathy, amounting almost to a hatred, on the part of the Government to those people who have not been attracted by the drift to the cities and who have elected to carry on their lives work in non-metropolitan areas of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Those people who were so near the bottom that they elected to get out could at least get out with some equity and some dignity. [More…]
Rather, it begins a process which the Australian people elected us to carry out. [More…]
They brought out 140 promises before the last election and were elected by a small majority and then honourable members opposite say that they have a mandate to do everything that was contained in their policy speech. [More…]
We have seen 2 further actions taken over the weekend, 2 actions that could be foreshadowed if the sole area of action that this Government has dealt in since it was elected were followed the credit squeeze and the move against food prices, particularly meat. [More…]
Dozens of people have been under sentence of death since I was elected to the Parliament. [More…]
Here I am giving credibility to an elected govenerment. [More…]
The Prime Minister therefore has been elected to office on a false pledge. [More…]
When has any government at the first opportunity it had of bringing down a pension increase, in our case in March, made it retrospective to the date it was elected? [More…]
It is the Parliamentary Labor Party, every one of us who is elected. [More…]
Since the Government was elected to office all its economic decisions have been directed to shifting men, women and resources from private industry and employment to the official government sector. [More…]
That pension will be up to the minimum wage in March, slightly more than a year after the Government was elected. [More…]
Service pensions were increased by $1.50 in March and made retrospective to the day the Government was elected. [More…]
There is a slight difference between the actual situation and that described by the honourable member for Barton and there are many ex-servicemen who, for their own reasons, elected to apply for an age pension as distinct from a Service pension. [More…]
So, I would ask the Deputy Prime Minister to explain to me, firstly, why the Government has elected on a 25 per cent reduction figure and why it will not permit other pensioners, such as the ones I have just mentioned, to be included. [More…]
In New Zealand the recently elected Labor Government awarded a general wage increase of 8.S per cent at the beginning of August but simultaneously implemented a wage freeze which is to apply until 30 June 1974. [More…]
Australia, through their elected representatives, defenceless against the trouble of inflation which arises in a diverse set of ways from overseas as well as from within the country. [More…]
In the debate on the Budget, the kicking of the rural community at the hands of the Labor Party and by the honourable member for Riverina, the present Minister for Immigration who has completely welshed on those who elected him to this place, was stressed by member after member on this side of the House. [More…]
It is unfortunate that they do not effectively represent the people who elected them to this House. [More…]
The second reason why Standing Orders should be suspended is that Major Peter Young, the pre-election spokesman on defence for the Australian Labor Party, has come out and condemned the Government, of which he would have been a member had he been elected, and the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) for the way in which they are administering the defence portfolio. [More…]
I feel that I must say that since I have been elected to this Parliament I have worked tirelessly on behalf of the people of the electorate of Lilley on the matter of the development of the Brisbane airport. [More…]
It may have had information which he is concerned that we, the elected members of this House, should not see and which we, the elected members, are to be prevented from observing in exercise of the rights that we have under the Standing Orders. [More…]
As the Minister knows, but would not be prepared to admit to the Committee, this will undermine the position of the elected officers of the particular trade union concerned. [More…]
The Minister is going to a very considerable length to see that union officials are properly elected - democratically elected - by their unions. [More…]
It does not seem to be consistent to take this step and then to take all negotiating authority and capacity away from those same properly elected officials. [More…]
There are many unions and unionists who, having democratically elected their officials, are prepared to support them through to a conclusion on any difficult negotiation. [More…]
Finally, the Opposition has to remember that we are the Government and we have been elected to office on a program to bring about better industrial relations. [More…]
We may be wrong in what we think ought to be done to the Act, but as the newly-elected Government we are entitled to be given the opportunity of trying to see whether what we believe to be right is the answer. [More…]
Then, his Party members decided that members of that shadow Cabinet should be elected by them. [More…]
Looking at the few who were elected on the other side, I think that those who were beaten were unlucky to lose their positions. [More…]
He went again in 1971 and as a newly elected member of this House I had the privilege of accompanying him. [More…]
The Special Committee endorses the view that the House of Assembly, as the duly elected representatives of the people of Papua New Guinea, in consultation with the administering Power, should decide the date for the attainment of independence of the Territory in the light of General Assembly resolution 2977 (XXVII) of 14 December 1972. [More…]
In each country he has been accepted as the elected leader of an emerging nation. [More…]
We accept the responsibility to ensure that Papua New Guinea is in a position to develop for the good of its own people in the way that the elected representatives of the people of Papua New Guinea, and not of Australia, should so decide. [More…]
Recently again we witnessed a high pressure public relations activity leading up to the proposed development of a so-called elected national Aboriginal consultative committee. [More…]
If it is, may I ask if he has yet received permission for himself or his officers to visit Yam Island in the Torres Strait Group, the elected chairman of which stated that he was not prepared to accept an offer of money on behalf of his people in return for allowing the Minister or his departmental officers to visit the island as the opportunity arises. [More…]
But will the senator, as an elected member of this Parliament, be in a position to handle and direct finance and staff for this project, or will the Minister or his officers handle this, as they should. [More…]
They suggested to him in 2 conferences in Canberra, and in a number of regional conferences, that an elected national Aborigines consultative council be set up. [More…]
both to be elected at the same time. [More…]
The Bill provides for the election of 2 senators each for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory and that such senators have the same powers, immunities and privileges as senators representing the States; that the first election of Territory senators be held at the same time as the next Senate election in the several States or at the same time as the next general election for members of the House of Representatives, if such is held before or in conjunction with the next Senate election: that the term of the first Territory senators be from the date of their election until the eve of polling day for the ensuing general election for members of the House of Representatives; that after the first election for Territory senators, elections be held at the same time as the general elections for members of the House of Representatives; that after the first election of Territory senators, the terms of Territory senators be the period between each House of Representatives election; and for the Territory senators to be elected under the same system of proportional representation as that currently applicable to the election of senators representing the States, except in the case of a single casual vacancy when such vacancy shall be filled by the holding of a by-election adopting the procedures used for filling a single casual vacancy for a State senator, as far as may be applicable. [More…]
We believe that it would be proper to have an even number elected each time for each Territory, thus allowing representation of the parties to be more evenly balanced than would be the case if only one senator for each Territory was provided. [More…]
But I do not think that in a House of 125 members, with the closeness of the contest at election time and the narrow margins by which governments are often elected, a solution of that type - the giving away of one seat - is one which any political party in this place will easily accept. [More…]
Although it is interesting to note that in most countries - I had reason to learn this at some close quarters when I was at the ‘United Nations - the elected representatives of the people move to Washington, to Delhi, to London holus bolus and stay there during the period of the sittings. [More…]
Yet there have been great changes since I was first elected to this place and, as I have said, they have been for the better. [More…]
In fact one would feel that they could so develop that honourable members would spend so much time in Canberra that they would forget to go home to their electorate and be re-elected. [More…]
However, for a private member to keep in contact with the people and offer service to the people who elected him to be their representative with the assistance of one staff member is impossible for any member who is intent on doing his job. [More…]
So often one hears the complaint that members cannot be found, that they are always in Canberra where they .are elected to go. [More…]
You are elected. [More…]
He was elected with the preferences of the Democratic Labor Party, and to that extent he must dance to their tune. [More…]
The Tariff Board was established in 1921 and it has been an important and respected source of advice to 21 of the 28 Parliaments which have been elected since federation. [More…]
Of the 2 senators to be elected for the Northern Territory, Government supporters might imagine that they could win one seat so they would be prepared, on those figures, to give one away in order to get three. [More…]
The Leader of the House wants the senators representing the Territories to be elected for 3-year terms or for terms which would coincide with House of Representatives elections. [More…]
In other words, their senators should be elected for a full 6-year term. [More…]
The fact that Senators are elected for longer periods can create some check on the rashness and extravagance of Labor governments. [More…]
They are to be elected for only 3 years and will be elected together. [More…]
It is a House where people are elected on a proportional representation basis. [More…]
If the Liberal Party could get them all I find it hard to understand why the leading spokesman for that Party said that although, with 2 senators being elected at one time on a proportional representation basis, his Party would require only 33 per cent of the vote plus one to get a senator elected, the Australian Labor Party would get the 2 senators for the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
After all, the senators elected from the Territory would be sitting alongside those elected from the States. [More…]
As a matter of fact when I was first elected to this House I received more than 50 per cent of the votes. [More…]
The Minister for Northern Development informed him that if there was a Labor Government elected the Northern Territory would get statehood. [More…]
So there was a genuine attempt on the part of the former Government to transfer executive responsibility across to the Northern Territory and to have a fully elected Legislative Council. [More…]
It would appear then to be more democratic to have an even number elected each time for each Territory thus following the pattern of the major parties providing that each would have a representative in the Senate. [More…]
Both senators will be elected every time there is a general election of the House of Representatives. [More…]
At its meeting last night, the Conference carried a motion supporting the establishment of two Senate seats for the A.C.T., both to be elected at the same time. [More…]
Despite the legal terms used by the honourable member for Stirling, Territory senators, when elected, will have equal rights with other senators in voting and in respect of everything else associated with Senate membership. [More…]
I presume the reason for it was specifically to cover the position of Mr Tom .Roper, who was a member of the Interim Committee of the Social Welfare Commission and who after joining the Interim Committee was elected as a member of the Victorian Parliament. [More…]
We have just listened to the typical, whining, whingeing, moaning and bellyaching type of speech we have heard from the Country Party goats since this Government was elected. [More…]
I believe that the people of Australia should have been informed that a social welfare commission would be established if the Australian Labor Party was elected, because this would have indicated that another government department would be established entailing the appointment of the head of the department, deputy heads and various other personnel. [More…]
The Labor Party gives the right to every member who is elected to come to this Parliament and who has to. [More…]
He said that the people who are elected to this Parliament to support the Government have only the right to elect the Prime Minister and have no right whatever to question any decision of the Cabinet let alone take part in a debate on, and possibly reject, a decision of the Cabinet in the Party room. [More…]
That particularly applies in regard to multi-national companies, which seek to defeat duly elected governments by contributing funds to their opponents in Australia and other places. [More…]
In a democracy such as ours, if there is a conflict between a duly elected Minister and his departmental head it should not be the Minister who is replaced. [More…]
There is only one other thing that I wish to say: If there is to be a situation in which a Minister is appointed to this very difficult portfolio, whoever that Minister may be or may have been - and I go back beyond the honourable member for Wills - and a non-elected person who disagrees with the decisions of the responsible Minister takes the opportunity to bypass him and, without that Minister’s knowledge, even goes to a Prime Minister and has overthrown the decisions of the Minister responsible, then so long as that situation continues the parliamentary approach will be derogated. [More…]
If that situation continues the idea of elected persons making decisions and Ministers speaking on behalf of a government will be denigrated. [More…]
The National Advisory Council is in the process of being elected. [More…]
When in Opposition, the present Minister for Civil Aviation stated that if his Party was elected to office he would see this airline out of business. [More…]
But due to very unfortunate circumstances that Labor Government left office and the backward Liberal-Country Party Government was elected. [More…]
This has been Labor policy for years and it will be introduced only when a Labor government is elected to office in the State of Queensland. [More…]
, But let us look at the whole issue of the Brisbane airport which has suddenly come to life after the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Doyle) was elected to this Parliament and started to take an interest in the airport by way of questions, letters and meetings in the electorate. [More…]
The man who was responsible for this action is the honourable member for Lilley who was recently elected to this House. [More…]
The honourable member for Lilley has been elected for 10 months and this Government has been in office for 10 months, and in that time have got the proposal moving. [More…]
We went ahead and selected a site. [More…]
I have stated the position in relation to Brisbane Airport, Caboolture Airport and just for good measure, Townsville Airport which nobody elected to mention but I raised it anyway. [More…]
John Duggan, who was the Labor Minister of Transport at that time was getting on with the job and it would have been well and truly completed today if that tragic Country Party-Liberal Party Government had not been elected and if the unfortunate split in the Labor Party had not taken place at that time. [More…]
The Labor Party will be getting on with the job of providing urban transport for Queensland, and Brisbane in particular, and we will not abandon it as the honourable member’s Party did when it was elected in 1957. [More…]
The struggle for the 35-hour week is being led and completely controlled by the rank and file elected job committees. [More…]
Two rank and file co-ordinators have been elected, one from the wage division and one from the salary division, by the rank and file 35-hour State-wide committee. [More…]
I am also disturbed by the recent revelation by the Minister for Immigration that a sum of $lm has been donated to the Liberal and Country Parties by foreign interests with a view to defeating the popularly elected Government. [More…]
The situation to which I draw attention is the very substantial call which is toeing made throughout the country for action to be taken in the other place to refuse supply to the Government and to override the House of Representatives - the only House which is elected by the whole of the Australian people. [More…]
If, as has already happened in Chile, international corporations are able to buy the destruction of an elected government - [More…]
The Senate, which is not elected on a basically equal franchise, is not the House of government - the House of Representatives is. [More…]
No party can guarantee or expect to have a majority in the Senate because of the manner in which its members are elected. [More…]
Approximately half of the members of the Senate were elected when Harold Holt was Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]
Honourable members will know that an important program we have embarked upon is the creation of a nationally elected Aboriginal Consultative Committee. [More…]
On 12 December 1972, before the Cabinet had been elected, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), who then had the responsibility, appointed an Interim Committee for an Australian Schools Commission. [More…]
Anyone who sees the Schools Commission as a single identity without relating it to the other magnificent work the Minister for Education has done or without seeing it in relation to the overall program for which this Government was so overwhelmingly elected, fails to see the inter-relationship between education and the community. [More…]
The Australian Government from time to time elected, is the most effective voice of the Australian people and sometimes the only one they have. [More…]
The persons who want this type of housing from the housing commissions or housing trusts in the States have had to wait 23 years for a Federal Labor Government to be elected and to provide this type of provision to meet their needs. [More…]
This Parliament can survive only if the people elected to represent the Australian people are given a reasonable opportunity of expressing a point of view on legislation which materially affects every Australian. [More…]
There is no denying that they are forgetting all about those who elected them. [More…]
The ultimate effect of this bureaucratisation must be a dispersal of power away from the elected representatives of the people to organisations whose links may be very direct with the Government but very tenuous with the Parliament and therefore with the people. [More…]
Governments are elected and governments are broken, but the government is only the vehicle by which people express their point of view. [More…]
We are talking about a government, freely and properly elected by the people, having control of the assets of the coutnry for the benefit of all. [More…]
In regard to the taxation concessions mentioned by the Leader of the Country Party, I would say to the honourable member for Leichhardt that there is no merit at all in giving taxation concessions to foreign multi-national corporations which donate to political campaign funds, as they have no right to provide finance for the defeat of a popularly elected government in another country. [More…]
The policy upon which the Labor Party was elected at the last election included a plank on Aboriginal affairs and that plank remains. [More…]
When the Labor Party was elected its Aboriginal Affairs Committee in conjunction with the Minister carried out over a period a survey reviewing public expenditure in order to develop guidelines which would ensure that the principles to which I referred were followed while the Aboriginal people were given the necessary support to enable them to spend money wisely. [More…]
The Minister will find that my arithmetic is much better than it was before and a lot beter than his when he said that no Country Party member had ever been elected to this Parliament on first preferences. [More…]
The Government was elected on a party platform which had been framed in this regard in July 1971 and on a policy speech which I delivered last November, committed to the proposition that local government in each State should have a voice and a vote on the Loan Council. [More…]
The newly elected Chairman of the Exchange said that it was time to convince the investing public that the Stock Exchange had to take real strides to restore the confidence of the small investor in the operation of the Stock Exchange, and that many questionable mining stocks had been brought before the people of Australia. [More…]
We are being asked to approve the creation of a situation in which the elected representatives of the people, the elected Government, will be bound - not simply permitted, but bound - to seek the advice and the recommendations of a statutory organisation before it can make decisions on assistance for industry; not just temporary arrangements but permanent policies. [More…]
Questions of the most vital concern to people are going to be decided, not by the elected representatives of those people, but by a body not responsible to the people - a body set up by a Government which is not prepared to shoulder the responsibilities which should be its own. [More…]
Nevertheless I say that this House should reject this Bill because the proposal it embodies will reduce the standing and authority of the Parliament; it will remove from the Government and the Parliament responsibilities which should be theirs, and it will place those responsibilities in the hands of an extremely powerful central planning authority which I believe will not have the capacity to make the kinds of decisions which will be in the interests of the majority of the Australian people - the kinds of decisions which only elected governments can and should make. [More…]
Finally, on this very topical issue of what the Government has done to primary industry since it came to power, I cannot emphasise too strongly that had this Commission been in existence when this Government was elected the rape of the rural sector which has taken place since 2 December would have been impossible. [More…]
In other words, the Parliament, the Government, the elected representatives of the people will not be those who will determine which industries of this country will be assisted nor in what way. [More…]
From memory, not one member of the Country Party has ever won more than SO per cent of the primary votes before being elected to this Parliament. [More…]
A couple of years ago he was elected on 27 per cent of the primary vote. [More…]
When I was elected to this place in 1959 I came with a main interest in tariffs. [More…]
Then the honourable member for Corangamite (Mr Street) was elected to the House and helped to shoulder some of the burden. [More…]
We regard the Government as being the elected representatives of the people, and consequently the Government should be prepared to exercise the responsibility accorded to it. [More…]
It will be a major bureaucratic organisation operating outside direct democratic responsibility to the elected representatives of the people. [More…]
It gives the Australian Government, the elected representatives of the people, the responsibility. [More…]
Politics is concerned with socio-economics and I refuse to accept that bureaucrats can make these sorts of decisions which should be the combined judgment of elected members of the Parliament or of the Cabinet. [More…]
The evidence that was accepted came from the members of this Parliament who were elected by the Australian people. [More…]
Yet the Government merely continues along its bumbling and arrogant way, caring nothing for the welfare of the people who elected it. [More…]
The Parliament assembled; the Address-in-Reply debate took place; the members were sworn in; the Speaker was elected; the Deputy Speaker was elected; the Ministry and ministerial changes were announced; the Whips were elected; there were condolence motions; the committee to prepare the Address-in-Reply - that Government knew when its speakers spoke for only 2i minutes that they were not too bright - was elected; the motion for the adoption of the Address-in-Reply was moved and seconded; and then, like bats out of hell, Government supporters ran out to the GovernorGeneral and at 5.45 p.m. gave him the 2-minute Address. [More…]
In other words, the right honourable member for Higgins indicated in that speech that if honourable members frustrate the will of the duly elected government they must expect to have their efforts curtailed by the use of, as it is popularly called in this place, the gag. [More…]
The members of that Liberal Cabinet were elected only about 3 months before that date. [More…]
The important difference is that the decisions affecting Papua New Guinea are now being made by the elected representatives of the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
People come to visit this place; they own it; we are elected by them, and yet there were signs ‘Strangers not admitted into the lobbies’. [More…]
Government when they were in Opposition last year making a regular practice when they were abroad of criticising the Australian Government and, ipso facto, the Australian people who elected that Government. [More…]
The fact that the Karmel Committee is enshrined in a schools commission and in legislation with a major policy commitment by a one-Party Government which was elected at a Federal election does not cut any ice at all. [More…]
First of all, I make it very clear that I take great pride in being a supporter of a Government which, immediately upon being elected to office, commissoned the Karmel report. [More…]
The only point I seek to make is that if the Labor Party goes to the people and its policy speech is delivered by its leaders, members of that Party have a nerve if, after being elected, they do not allow the promises contained therein to be implemented. [More…]
To be consistent, they had better say where they will cut Government spending if they are re-elected. [More…]
The Upper House is elected on a fancy franchise, is only a House of Review and has no power to deny Supply, morally or historically. [More…]
Almost the majority of the Opposition’s representation has been elected not on No. [More…]
This was three and a half years before I was elected to the House of Representatives. [More…]
The man who was responsible for this is the honourable member for Lilley, who was recently elected to this House. [More…]
Not the slightest doubt exists in my mind that, if they were ever re-elected to government, they would throw the whole wheat agreement into jeopardy [More…]
It means that a Liberal government - if ever elected - would treat Taiwan as a separate, independent government, separate from China. [More…]
If it is found that these matters are being handled in that way and that no regard is being had to decisions of democratically elected local government, and if speculators can go their own merry way without getting approval from the local planning authorities, it is time that the Housing Commission and other authorities took up all land development. [More…]
Therefore I suggest to honourable members opposite that they should conduct themselves in accordance with the Standing Orders of this Parliament and in a manner befitting the dignity of a member of Parliament and not behave like a lot of under-educated larrikins in a place where they are expected to show some respect for the people who elected them to this place. [More…]
If the Senate will not change its vote, the Senate which is elected next year will do so. [More…]
It is purely a transitional arrangement designed to adjust to the new system the terms of those existing senators whose terms expire on 30 June 1977 and the terms of those who will be elected at the forthcoming Senate election. [More…]
Further, a senator elected at the forthcoming Senate elections for service from 1 July 1974 will have a term running until the 1981 House of Representatives election - again unless there is a double dissolution or earlier election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
This will mean, in normal circumstances and, of course, excluding any senators elected to fill casual vacancies, that the senators serving when the constitutional alteration becomes law could have a term of up to about 7i years. [More…]
I should add that when a double dissolution occurs under the new arrangement, the senators then elected will be divided by the Senate into 2 classes as at present, but their terms will be equal to 2 House of Representatives terms in the one case and one House of Representatives term in the other. [More…]
I also said that the Government would want to include a provision that the State Houses of Parliament be elected directly by the people. [More…]
Similarly, in those States with Upper Houses elected directly by the people very large inequalities exist as the following examples show. [More…]
The New South Wales Upper House is elected not by the people but by the existing members of the 2 Houses. [More…]
The Bill also proposes an amendment of the Constitution so that each House of each State Parliament will be elected directly by the people of the State. [More…]
Thus the amendment will require New South Wales to alter the voting system for its Legislative Council so that all of its members are elected by the ordinary voters of the State. [More…]
One was that elected local government should have both a voice and a vote in the Loan Council. [More…]
The other was that the Australian Government be empowered to borrow on behalf of elected local government. [More…]
The intention is to grant financial assistance only to elected local government bodies. [More…]
Who are these builders labourers that they shall dictate what jobs shall go on and what jobs shall not and defy the proper elected authorities of this country? [More…]
Then, not losing any time, this chap scurried down and then obviously offered from the Country Party’s coffers and slush funds $1,500 or $1,000 whichever he thought the Labor Party would be prepared to accept by way of a bribe to give its preferences to the Country Party in an endeavour to beat Mrs Millen, the legitimately elected Liberal Party member for the State seat of Murray who was returned at the last election for that seat. [More…]
If the Government will do responsibly what is was elected to do, it will get support from the Opposition parties. [More…]
Before he was elected to this chamber he was a paid official of a communist union which was run by Jackie Hughes. [More…]
I would have thought that the purpose of laying a White Paper on the table is to allow interested organisations to comment on it, to put their views forward through the elected members on both sides of the Parliament so that the Minister and his advisers can consider constructive criticisms when drafting the legislation. [More…]
One of the first things we did on being elected to office, after campaigning for it for years, was to extend eligibility for treatment for cancer to those who had served in a theatre of war. [More…]
It may be said that it is the newspaper proprietors, the television proprietors, or whatever: I do not mind which way it is put, but I say that there is enormous power in these unelected persons. [More…]
Power has moved from elected persons to unelected persons inasmuch as this platform here, the Parliament, no longer matters, and instead this tremendously elevated platform is being used by unelected persons who can use it to express their own biased views. [More…]
When a referendum of this kind is to be put to the people surely the Parliament, of all places, is where there should be discussion on the issues to be raised in the referendum; that is, unless one takes the view that Parliament does not matter at all and that the views of the elected representatives of the people are of no consequence. [More…]
The consequential elections were held on 28 April 1951 and in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, the terms of the newly elected senators were taken to have begun on 1 July 1950. [More…]
The back-dating of the term of service necessitated further Senate elections before 30 June 1953 whereas the newly elected members of the House of Representatives began their 3-year term from the date of the election - that is as from 28 April 1951. [More…]
The Bill includes provisions covering a double dissolution situation as well as the position of senators elected under the present arrangements. [More…]
Senators elected after a double dissolution will be divided by the Senate into 2 classes. [More…]
Half the Senate will be elected at the time of each election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
Voters would know the choice before them - the election of a government - and could be more confident that the government so elected could effectively carry out its mandate, while political parties would be able better to plan their campaigns and formulate policies for government. [More…]
Separate elections do not, in practice, affect the formation of governments, but often they lead to situations where the government in the lower House the duly elected government at that time is frustrated by an oppositionheld senate. [More…]
In some cases, a government may be frustrated by an earlier elected Senate. [More…]
It is not conducive to sound government that the future of a recently elected government should depend upon eventualities of elections for senators which take place during the normal life of the House of Representatives. [More…]
I suggest that instead of holding a referendum to provide for both Houses to be elected together, we simply go out to the Governor-General and invite him to allow us to have the elections of the House of Representatives with the Senate elections.’ [More…]
Rather, the Constitution will be strengthened, for capricious government, which can be brought about by a Senate’s rejecting legislation that has been passed by an elected House of Representatives, can have the effect of lowering the respect in which the public holds the Parliament and the legislative process. [More…]
I suggest that the reason for this recommendation is that a government elected by the will of the people on its policies could effectively and efficiently carry out those policies. [More…]
I assume that the only reason the 2 Houses in Canada do not come out conjointly is that the Senate is elected for life, the House of Commons every 5 years. [More…]
Earlier I referred to the methods adopted in countries which have bicameral systems of Parliament where both Houses are elected conjointly. [More…]
From listening to the prophets of doom on the other side it is quite clear that bicameral systems, if both Houses are elected conjointly, work effectively. [More…]
Any government that is worth its salt can certainly prune its legislation to meet the circumstances of an upper House, particularly an upper House, might I add in the 30 seconds left to me, that is different from, say, the upper House in the New South Wales ParliamentI am not going to debate it in that it is elected by the people of Australia. [More…]
We do not care whether it is a Labor Government or a Liberal Government which is in power - we know that a Labor government will be elected in New South Wales on Saturday- [More…]
I have no reason to believe that the Ministers who have been elected by the full Party have betrayed any trust. [More…]
For some survey to be taken amongst elected people is not to the point. [More…]
These are people who are not elected, these are people whose criteria are different from ours. [More…]
Ministers are elected by the Caucus. [More…]
What a mandate really means, in the broad, is that if a party is elected to government it can implement the broad policies of that party - not every little issue that it has put up. [More…]
They have elected representatives to this House; and they would also have representation in the Senate, if the Opposition had not blocked our legislation, which would have provided for this in accordance with the ALP platform. [More…]
A curious result of this is that the Government is alleging that it was not democratically elected and that by the amendment of the Constitution there will be henceforth democratic elections. [More…]
any member of the other place who would seriously assert that the House of Representatives or the Senate is not directly elected by the people? [More…]
There is one chamber only in Australia which is not elected by the direct vote of every State citizen, and that is the upper House of New South Wales. [More…]
That House has existed to this day, and its members are elected by the combined vote of all members of both Houses of the legislature. [More…]
Firstly, it is an assertion that the Government was not elected democratically. [More…]
The Government is putting the proposition that it was not elected democratically. [More…]
Now it wants to amend the Constitution to make sure in the future it will be elected democratically. [More…]
It is also an assertion that there is not a single State Parliament that was elected democratically. [More…]
Section 24 of the Constitution really intends that, subject to each State of the Commonwealth having a minimum of 5 members, the members elected from each State shall be in proportion to the number of persons resident in the particular State. [More…]
It is a denial of logic to suggest that, having determined that the number of members elected from each State should be determined by equal value of votes, the electoral divisions within the States should be determined on a different basis. [More…]
It must seem odd, even to a layman, that the Prime Minister feels it is open to him to initiate action which he intends should lead to the States being told by him in effect how their Parliaments should be elected. [More…]
Here is a Party one of the members of which, sitting in the back, the honourable member for McMillan (Mr Hewson), was elected on 16.63 per cent of the primary votes. [More…]
Until quite recently the Upper House of the South Australian Parliament was elected by means of a restricted franchise and, even today, the Legislative Council of the New South Wales Parliament is elected indirectly. [More…]
First, even if the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales were willing to reform itself and institute a more equitable distribution - the signs, of course, are that the lower House is certainly not willing to do so - any such proposals would need to be accepted by the indirectly elected upper House - the Legislative Council of the New South Wales Parliament. [More…]
This upper House, which is not elected by the people, is in a position to frustrate the will of the lower House. [More…]
As the Prime Minister said in his second-reading speech it is designed to seek approval for ‘an amendment of the Constitution which would write into it the principle of substantial equality of electoral divisions for all the Parliaments of Australia and a provision that the State Houses of Parliament be elected directly by the people’. [More…]
On the contrary, I suggest there is a moral obligation on all elected representatives in this House to permit the people’s view to be obtained. [More…]
The Liberal Party received 32.1 per cent of that total vote and had 38 members elected. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party received 430,476 votes, which was 48 per cent of the total votes cast, and had 33 members elected. [More…]
The Liberal Party received 201,608 votes, or 22 per cent of the total vote, and had 21 members elected. [More…]
I point out that 2 independent candidates also were elected. [More…]
The Government was elected in precisely the same circumstances as the previous Government was elected. [More…]
I do not believe that all wisdom resides in Canberra and I certainly do not believe that you can assemble bureaucrats in Canberra who know better than do the elected councillors of the local government areas what is good for local government. [More…]
One was that elected local governments should have both a voice and a vote on the Loan Council and the other was that the Australian Government should be empowered to borrow on behalf of elected local governments. [More…]
This Bill is one that sets out to allow the people of Australia to decide whether elected local government in this country should have access to public funds on better conditions and in a more direct way than at present. [More…]
Question time in Parliament was designed to allow members of both the Government and the Opposition to obtain information which they consider vital to the efficient performance of their duties as elected representatives of the people. [More…]
I think it fair to say that until the Prime Minister tells us about the staffing arrangements of Ministers, which he has promised this Parliament to do but has not done, the people of Australia are entitled to know who these faceless men are who are not elected by the Australian people but who cover up for Ministers in every way possible at huge public expense. [More…]
When I was elected one of the first things which the then Country Party Whip, who was giving the new members a rundown on what we were permitted to do, did was to warn us against casting reflections- on a member’s ability to carry on effectively because he was under the influence. [More…]
The word ‘privilege’ arises out of the need for members of this Parliament, who are elected to represent the public of Australia in a democratic form, to be able to conduct the affairs of the nation in this Parliament fearlessly. [More…]
The recently elected member for Gosford, Councillor Brooks, the Shire President, used his position as Shire President- [More…]
He was elected member for the Gosford electorate last Saturday and I congratulated him on his election. [More…]
I wish him well in the 3-year term for which he has been elected. [More…]
On the following day in the Legislative Council that amendment was agreed to by all elected members. [More…]
They said that the Federal Convention was not a body composed of delegates elected by the people of Australia and that in the ratification of the Constitution of the Commonwealth there was an independent referendum in each colony. [More…]
But action to see that all elected members of the Australian Parliament are fully informed about significant economic matters is a proper thing to do, and something which I and the Prime Minister are equally concerned to bring about. [More…]
if there is no State Board in the State - he shall be appointed by the Minister after being elected by wheat growers in the State in accordance with the regulations. [More…]
I am totally opposed to this capricious action of the Minister in interfering with the elected representatives of the growers. [More…]
Rumours are strong that the Labor machine intends to replace elected grower representatives with jobs for the boys. [More…]
The first is that the authority to market the Australian wheat crop firmly belongs with the Australian Wheat Board which has 10 grower members who are democratically elected by the vote of the rank and file in 3 States. [More…]
When I was elected to this Parliament in 1969 after 34 years service in the Taxation Office I commenced to hammer the then Liberal-Country Party Government on its lack of legislative action to prevent taxation avoidance schemes. [More…]
On behalf of the Corio electorate, which John Dedman represented so well, I would like to add my tribute to a man whom I did not know personally until I was elected to this Parliament; he had moved out of the Geelong area some years earlier. [More…]
The situation is an interesting one in that the Government was elected on a program involving a vast range of expenditure proposals which, to the understanding of the lay voter, was to be achieved without an increase in taxation. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and his colleagues during the election period gave an undertaking to the Australian electorate that their Party, if elected to office, would not raise taxation, would not increase the tax burden of any individual taxpayer. [More…]
Provisions for imprisonment in default of payment of fines or court costs are made, for New South Wales by Act of the New South Wales Parliament, for the Australian Capital Territory by Ordinance made by the Governor-General, and for the Northern Territory by Ordinance made by the Legislative Council of the Territory, on which elected members have a majority. [More…]
He came to my electorate of Evans and spelt out what the Australian Labor Party, then in Opposition, would do if it were elected to office. [More…]
I shall finish my speech where I started: If the amendments were carried the Schools Commission Bill would be finished and the Government’s proposal and what it was elected to do also would be finished. [More…]
As far as I am concerned, it was quite clear in that letter and in the statements that have been made - it has always been quite clear - that if a Labor government were elected it would make the allocations on the basis of need. [More…]
As we all know, the interim National Aboriginal Consultative Committee held its inaugural meeting in Canberra between 21 and 23 February when it elected a steering committee to develop proposals for the consultative group’s structures and method of representation. [More…]
They asserted that there had been misrepresentation to blacks - that is their word - of the office and purpose of the elected body. [More…]
Aborigines everywhere have complained that the time allowed between voter registrations, the nomination of candidates and the actual voting day did not allow sufficient time to permit the people to become acquainted with the true function of the body to be elected or with the processes of nomination. [More…]
The people elected will be Aboriginals from across the board socially. [More…]
The Honey Board is composed of growers elected by a poll and a Government appointed chairman who, incidentally, is Mr Keith Mitchell of Warwick whom 1 am very proud to number among my constituents in the electorate of Darling Downs. [More…]
If the Senate is to continue its path of flouting the will of the duly elected Government, the Constitutional government, it has only got - [More…]
The report issued by the Department of Urban and Regional Development insists that regional councils should consist of one elected representative of each council? [More…]
The clear implication was that this Government was elected undemocratically. [More…]
But they have the numbers in a place called the Senate, whose members were not elected at the same time as we were. [More…]
In fact, half of them were elected as far back as 6 years ago. [More…]
We were elected on this proposal. [More…]
We were elected on this proposal. [More…]
Australia’s task in the past has been to carry out the United Nations mandate to advance the people of Papua New Guinea politically, economically and socially to the position where they could run their own affairs and to do this in accordance with the wishes of the people expressed through their elected representatives in the House of Assembly. [More…]
I live in an outer suburban area, as do many of the new members who were elected to this Parliament after the 1972 election. [More…]
The Australian Government’s approach to local government is quite clear from the fact that we so early sponsored amendments to the Grants Commission Act and also the fact that we are sponsoring referendums next year coincidental with the Senate election or other elections at that time, and one of them will make it possible for the Australian Government to deal directly with the elected local government bodies as regards both outright grants of money and also grants which are repayable. [More…]
At the same time it has been carrying out the policies that it was elected to carry out. [More…]
Prior to the last election, several Government supporters in Tasmania continually stressed that if they were in government the grower representatives to the statutory marketing authority, which they had outlined would be established under their government, would be elected by the growers themselves. [More…]
elected representation of growers to the Corporation as promised by its spokesmen prior to the last election.’ [More…]
There are some points in this legislation that I am not happy about and one is the fact that the members of the Corporation are to be appointed, not elected. [More…]
As the honourable member for Corangamite mentioned, the growers in the industry were told by the Labor Party spokesmen before the general election that they believed in elected representatives. [More…]
Finally, I turn to the matter of having elected representatives of growers on the Corporation as promised by a Labor spokesman prior to the last election. [More…]
From listening to the honourable member, I believe that the people whom the Minister will appoint as growers’ representatives may not be growers whose names appear on the list as being having been elected by the growers’ section of the industry. [More…]
Only four of the 9 members of the Corporation will be grower representatives, and they may not even be elected by growers. [More…]
The growers and their elected bodies are happy with the present arrangements. [More…]
I point out that from the time this Federal Labor Government was democratically elected by the people of Australia, the backward Premier of Queensland has done nothing but attack it and make statements saying that he would not support any measures which come from this Government. [More…]
The present Government was elected on the basis of policies which were developed carefully, steadily and intelligently to meet the important demands of our community. [More…]
The Labor Government was elected to carry out this health program, in the same way as it was elected to provide equality of opportunity in education, to come to terms with the problems of our cities and to deal with other long neglected national problems. [More…]
These men were not elected by the people and it is doubtful whether there was even one geologist among the lot of them. [More…]
We know that we are dealing with a Government which confesses that in itself it is the creature of people who are not elected by the Australian people but are responsible only to small groups. [More…]
Just over 12 months ago the first national Labor Government in 23 years was elected to office. [More…]
We have seen in the Senate a pattern of blatant obstruction and of flagrant defiance of a popular mandate conferred by the people on an elected government. [More…]
For the first time they are represented in an elected consultative council which can deal directly with the Australian Government. [More…]
That service was no doubt the reason why he was elected as its representative. [More…]
In these circumstances, whatever the Standing Orders are at the moment, they should be suspended to allow the Prime Minister to stand in this House and tell the people’s elected representatives the way in which action will be taken immediately to stop wrong expenditure and to make sure that in future all expenditure is according to law and according to the proper regulations. [More…]
The clear implication is that up till now the House of Representatives has not been elected democratically. [More…]
What right has the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) to be sitting at the table if he was not elected democratically? [More…]
I think it would be to the great good of democracy if he were removed, but the fact is that he was elected, one would assume, democratically. [More…]
The implication is that we were not elected democratically. [More…]
I think the time is overdue that the people of Australia should see all houses of parliament elected in a democratic way. [More…]
This body is the elected leadership of the local government authorities throughout Australia. [More…]
I say to those honourable members who sit opposite that it is time in Australia that systems were devised whereby the majority vote elected the majority of members. [More…]
If one has regard to their performance and to their approach one must realise that they could not win a majority of the votes because the majority of people are more sensible than to elect Country Party members because they know they are the types of people who are elected only because boundaries are gerrymandered and rigged to their advantage. [More…]
It is also proposed by this Bill to write into the Constitution a guarantee that each House of the various State Parliaments must be elected directly by the people. [More…]
Not only do we seek a constitutional guarantee that State Houses of Parliament shall be directly elected by the people, but also it is proposed to guarantee the suffrage in State elections to Australian citizens on terms and conditions analogous to those operating for electors to this Parliament. [More…]
I believe that democracy would best be served by allowing the elected representatives of the people in this House to discuss measures which ultimately will be put to them for decision. [More…]
If we do not, we are failing in our duty as elected representatives of the people and, Mr Speaker, in our obligation to you and your predecessors, because it is your responsibility to uphold the Standing Orders. [More…]
The opportunity was given in this properly elected House for the debate to go on. [More…]
In the other chamber, which is controlled by the Liberal and Country parties, the Australian Democratic Labor Party and a few Independents - not the newly elected Government - the legislation was thrown back and tonight and this afternoon we hear these great protectors of liberty now saying that this Parliament is being destroyed. [More…]
The Government is unable to ensure that the processes of a democratically elected Upper House are allowed to take their proper course. [More…]
The House of Representatives, being elected for a 3-year or shorter period must of necessity be constantly looking towards the next election whereas the senators with a longer span are able to make a more balanced approach to legislation. [More…]
Reducing the Senate to a duplicate and having senators elected for the same period of office as members of the House of Representatives would mean that the Senate would serve no useful purpose at all. [More…]
There will then be ample time for the next parliaments elected in the Commonwealth and the States to intro- duce legislation which will comply with the provisions of this Bill to be put to the people next May and to be carried by them at that time. [More…]
We believe - and we have said for the last 10 years, since the United States Supreme Court, the Warren Court, first laid down this interpretation - that it ought to be put in the Constitution so that elected persons can no longer disregard this proper democratic principle. [More…]
That Committee met throughout that Parliament and when the new Parliament was elected at the end of 1958 it was reconstituted. [More…]
I believe that members are elected to participate in the activities and debates of this Parliament. [More…]
It seems to me that the honourable member for Cowper (Mr Ian Robinson), the previous speaker, was more concerned with being in his electorate than he was with sitting in the national House of Parliament, which he was elected to do. [More…]
I think that view is justifiable, but the fact is that he was not elected to be a social worker in his electorate. [More…]
He was elected to come to this Parliament and speak in this chamber. [More…]
One of the principal features that did not apply to any other government for 23 years is that the elected representatives who sit on this side of the House help to decide what will be the Government’s policy. [More…]
They seem to indicate to me that the elected parliamentarians, in the discharge of their duties, should have regard to the people of Australia as a whole and at all times endeavour to secure the advancement of the national welfare, including that of our Aborigines. [More…]
What is not remembered by many of our critics and oppon ents is that this Government was elected for a period of 3 years. [More…]
State governments are elected. [More…]
Where is the promised tax deductibility scheme for interest rate payments on home mortgages which was an essential part of the policy speech on which the Government was elected? [More…]
But when governments are elected they are elected to represent people. [More…]
When members who come here or are elected to any Parliament they are nominally at least, although not in practice in Australia in most State parliaments, representatives of the people who elect them. [More…]
If one member represents 15 times the number of electors represented by another member who has equal voting on the floor of the Parliament, the Parliament is not democratically elected. [More…]
It is possible for that single House of Parliament, which is not elected by a majority of electors, to pass laws to restrict the franchise in any way it wishes. [More…]
When I spoke on that occasion I was very much aware that I was a member of a government that had just been elected and that had committed itself to policies of reform and innovation. [More…]
At that enthusiastic meeting there was quickly elected a steering committee which included councillors, a psychiatrist, service club members, pensioners and one of the local general practitioners, as well as other socially active people in the area. [More…]
The submission of the community’s elected group will shortly be on its way to the Australian Hospital and Health Services Commission and the Minister in Canberra and also to the Victorian Hospitals and Charities Commission and the Victorian Minister. [More…]
The proposed referendum which must be carried by the people to become law would force all governments to legislate in order that their parliaments would be elected by electorates in substantially equal population. [More…]
The methods by which members of parliaments are elected, whether they be State or Federal, should be binding on the parliaments and not alterable by the parliament to which the members are elected. [More…]
At the present time there are only 3 State governments which have been elected by more than 50 per cent of the people. [More…]
This situation has come about because of the way in which members of the upper Houses are elected. [More…]
It did not matter to them that local governments could not properly perform the functions for which they were elected. [More…]
After all, we are all elected to represent people and we have to represent people who do not have votes because they are not yet 18 years of age; we. [More…]
These are all people and we are elected to represent people and to fulfil their needs as far as we can. [More…]
This is the case in the United States and has been in the federal and all the State elected bodies there for the last 10 years. [More…]
It is not possible to ensure that in Australia by legislation of this Parliament because of thi attitude of people elected 3i or 6 years ago in the Senate. [More…]
The United Nations in its resolution of 12 December 1973 noted that ‘the House of Assembly has affirmed its right as the duly elected Parliament of the People of Papua New Guinea to decide when independence is to come and that the administering power accepts that the House of Assembly represents the wishes of the people on the question of independence’. [More…]
The Chief Minister has indicated, by foreshadowing a motion, that during April or May the matter will be fully discussed and debated and the decision will be taken by the elected leaders of Papua New Guinea in the House of Assembly, and we welcome that. [More…]
I trust that those who disagree with him will regard him as the genuine leader that he is, calling forth the aspirations of his people, and that if they have differences of view they will express them in the House of Assembly, and only in the House of Assembly, so that there is a full and fruitful debate on the matter by the elected representatives of the people. [More…]
Few governments in Western democracies have been elected to office after having been in opposition for so long. [More…]
When this Government was elected it said it would be an open government and a government which kept its promises. [More…]
It has neglected in so many ways the interests particularly of those Australians it was elected to assist. [More…]
As every Australian sees the sense in owning his own home wherever possible, we expect the same commonsense and leadership to be shown by the people who are elected to govern. [More…]
I propose to analyse this theme of time because we were looking at the whole program of the Labor Government, elected by the people in 1972, in this Address-in-Reply debate. [More…]
That road leads to the stagnation which we were elected to eliminate and which we did eliminate. [More…]
The Senate election doesn’t have to be held until the end of June because the senators who will be elected will take office on 1 July. [More…]
On construing sections 135 and 141 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act it would appear to me that new senators will be elected one by one with the declaration of the poll. [More…]
I suppose that the question of who is going to be elected first and in which State is really a matter which is very much under the control of the electoral machinery. [More…]
Looking at section 135 (5) (c) and section 141 (1) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act, it seems to me that senators can be declared elected one by one. [More…]
Under the arrangements proposed by the Australian Government there would still be the 6 Premiers, 6 representatives elected by and from local councillors in each State through a process of free election by a method to bc determined by the councillor; themselves, and 4 representatives of the Australian Government. [More…]
He is elected by honourable members opposite to do that job. [More…]
The Kirribilli Declaration has put an end to the discriminatory treatment, which had been the order of the day until the Labor Government was elected - or, to be precise, until the Declaration was made - that had been accorded to people making application to come to Australia on the grounds of the possession of special skills. [More…]
The referendum proposal concerning the Senate does not, in fact, involve a reduction in the term of office of any senator who was elected 3i years ago, or in the term of office of any senator who will be elected before the end of June this year. [More…]
In other words, if the House of Representatives goes its full term, then the senators who were elected 3t years ago will enjoy a term of office not of 6 years but of H years. [More…]
Those who are to be elected before the end of June this year will also enjoy a term of office not of 6 years but of 7i years. [More…]
Shortly after being elected to office the Government announced that there would be increases in a number of repatriation pension rates. [More…]
The Prime Minister, in his pre-election speech, definitely implied to the 20,000 or more TPI pensioners that if the Labor Party was elected the pension would be immediately raised to the minimum wage and kept at that level. [More…]
If you can sit by and allow this to go on without examining the reports of Parliament then you have committed an error and you are not living up to the high status to which this House has elected you. [More…]
The right honourable gentleman knows quite well that on some occasions it is possible for his colleagues or his confederates in the Senate to prevent the will of the majority of the members elected at the most recent Federal election, that it is possible for senators elected in December 1967 and in December 1970 to frustrate the will of the people expressed in the election of the House of Representatives in 1972. [More…]
The fact is that this Parliament and all the mainland State parliaments are not elected by democratic means. [More…]
Politicians have been making statements that if they are elected they will not approve of the structure. [More…]
It has been made a political issue in Perth on the basis of Sir Charles Court saying: ‘If I am elected the Australian Government will not build if. [More…]
When all is said and done, it seems to me that if a Court government instead of a Tonkin government is elected in the Western Australian elections, one of the sequels will be that the redevelopment of Forrest Place, Perth, will not take place. [More…]
The present Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) was conditioned by the Liberal Party before being elected to the Parliament by being made a migration selection officer in London. [More…]
That a member of the Queensland State Parliament would ask a question which contains damaging references to elected representatives without first checking the facts h unbelievable. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party made a lot of statements before December 1972 as to what it would do with the wool industry if it were elected to office. [More…]
He made the statement that $500m should be made available if a Labor Government were elected to office. [More…]
It has endeavoured to disenfranchise the people of Queensand at the forthcoming election, because the split must be 3-3 and they will not be able to express their preferences for the Government or the Opposition by a split of 3-2 which is possible if there is an uneven number of senators to be elected. [More…]
We are interested in whether there is regional or local elected government. [More…]
These were people who were informed by the duly elected government of the country at the time that if they exercised the CMF option to national service they would be behaving in an honourable way and in the interests of the defence of the country. [More…]
Yet the Minister chooses to accuse the people who exercised the option in the light of that statement by the duly elected government of the country virtually of being cowards. [More…]
What else is it but an accusation of cowardice by those people who took the words of the duly elected government of the day at their face value and exercised that option? [More…]
Where the delinquency comes in so far as the Australian Government is concerned is that shortly after it was elected to power the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) indicated that he had power under the Constitution unilaterally to transfer that power. [More…]
Let me remind the honourable member for North Sydney who now shows mock concern for the Australian public servant that the other great thing that his Government did for the public servants in the field of superannuation was to introduce one of the most inequitable schemes imaginable - the socalled non-contributory unit which was available only to those who elected to retire at age 65 and those who for one reason or another found it necessary to retire at age 60 and had to fix their pension on that basis were denied any benefit from that so-called and much vaunted improvement. [More…]
For too long the Government elected by the people in December 1972 has been frustrated by senators elected by the people in December 1967 and December 1970. [More…]
The Senate, elected in December 1967 and December 1970, will continue in being until the end of June. [More…]
The House of Representatives was more recently elected. [More…]
For too long it has been frustrated by senators elected two and five years before - 6) years and 3i years ago. [More…]
This Government was elected with a very small majority. [More…]
The last speaker, the Leader of the Australian Country Party, quite incorrectly said that the Labor Government was elected to power on the votes of the people in Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]
The Opposition cannot permit these successes to continue so it resorts to blocking the Government in the Senate and using its numbers in a House that was not elected at the time that the people of Australia believed they were electing an Australian Government - December 1972. [More…]
It is a House that was elected in part much earlier, in some cases 5 years before, when the world was different and when circumstances were different. [More…]
But I would have thought that honourable gentlemen would well know that I have consistently followed the attitude throughout my years in the Parliament - so has the Treasurer and so have all my senior colleagues - that it is inappropriate for the Senate to purport to cut off supply for the House of Representatives where governments are elected and to which governments are responsible. [More…]
Because in our parliamentary system the Speaker is elected by the House on each occasion it meets following an election, for the House, it follows that the Speaker always comes from the Government side. [More…]
Mr Speaker, you are a man who has been elected to the highest office in this Parliament. [More…]
The Government was elected to office on 2 December 1972. [More…]
But the so-called delay at that time is nothing like the delay of the present Government and the present Commissioners because he should have moved much more quickly and sooner than 23 May 1973, which was some 6 months after the Government was elected in December 1972, to set in motion the machinery to bring about the redistribution. [More…]
Surely the situation is that even had the Government brought in the redistribution the day after it was elected to office the situation would not have changed until the next election. [More…]
Whenever an alteration is made in the number of members of the House of Representatives to be elected for the State; [More…]
We were not ali possessed of the prescience that there would be an election within less than 12 months: The normal assumption of one who is elected for 3 years is that he will carry on for 3 years. [More…]
The appropriate procedures for the Division of the Australian Capital Territory into 2 areas have been in train for some time but, because of the unprecedented threat made by the Opposition to deny Supply to a popularly elected Government, it may be necessary to hold a general election for this House before the Committee has completed its task. [More…]
They have been endorsed in this House but people in another place, elected as long ago as 1967 in some cases, have seen fit to reject them despite the fact that the Australian Government, in Her Majesty’s own words, ‘has a mandate’ for this legislation. [More…]
The members of the Senate are elected by the people of Australia. [More…]
The Opposition is seeking to deny the Australian people an opportunity which is their entitlement - an opportunity for their elected Government to give effect to the legislative obligations which it has, following a sweeping victory in a general election. [More…]
Mr Speaker, honourable gentlemen opposite are interjecting as I contend that there has been obstruction in the other place and as I contend that the standard bearers elected back in 1967 are still trying to rule the roost. [More…]
This is because all over this country today Liberal and Country Party organisers - the bigwigs of business and industry - are standing over members of the Country Party and the Liberal side in another place seeking to get their vote to stop supply and to defeat this duly elected Government. [More…]
He and his Party are committed to increase the price of petrol as soon as they are elected to office. [More…]
Never in the history of the Australian Parliament extending over 73 years has any Opposition threatened to withhold Supply from a democratically elected Australian Government. [More…]
Already in another place we find that the Opposition has been ruthless and so reckless in the utilisation of its brutal majority that in 13 days from 28 February to 4 April it has carried 35 divisions and allowed the elected Government of the day to carry only one division. [More…]
Honourable members need to remember that there is no analogy between the Australian Senate - properly and democratically elected by all the people of Australia - and a hereditary House of Lords. [More…]
That is what he thinks of democracy; that is what he thinks of this Parliament; that is the contempt he shows for the elected institutions in Australia which alone stand between the Australian people and a wretched Government which will stand condemned in five or six weeks time unless the Prime Minister turns tail and runs again as he did last year. [More…]
One of the great derelictions of this particular Government is that it has forgotten that it was elected to be the servants of the people it presumes to lead. [More…]
Progressive legislation that this Government has passed has been in the face of deliberate, blatant, frustrating tactics from the Opposition majority in the Senate, who were elected almost 3 years and 5 years before this Government’s policies were endorsed by the Australian people. [More…]
In that majority who were elected 3 and 5 years ago - let us examine those in particular who were elected 5 years ago - are a number of senators whose term of office expires in a matter of a few weeks. [More…]
The honourable member for Griffith has been in this House for 7 years and, on his own admission, he had not made one speech in respect of the Brisbane Airport until the Labor Government was elected in 1972. [More…]
It took him almost 12 months after the Labor Government was elected to discover suddenly that we had an airport in Brisbane. [More…]
I would compare my record of attendance in this House since I was elected with that of the honourable member for Petrie. [More…]
When people want to make comparisons between the representation by the various elected representatives, I will stand before the people of Lilley and tell them that I have been present at every session. [More…]
I am pointing out that during the 16 months that I have been the honourable member for Lilley considerable amounts of money have been allocated to and expended on the Brisbane Airport development and I have played my part in this regard in representing the people who elected me to this chamber. [More…]
They knew that they could stand in the way of worthwhile social reform, a major issue on which we were elected and for which we have a mandate. [More…]
It is recommended the majority of members of Boards of Directors of all funds should be democratically elected by the contributors and that full public disclosure of accounts is made. [More…]
They want to know whether they will continue to have security of employment and whether their sons are going to be conscripted if by any mischance the Opposition were re-elected into government. [More…]
So the Liberal Party favours the present situation in which the directors of funds are not democratically elected by the contributors but continue to be nominated by people who represent basically not consumer groups but hospital organisations and the Australian Medical Association and so on. [More…]
We are in an unprecedented position because a strongly supported Government, elected with a clear mandate, faces termination of office by a Senate with no mandate at all. [More…]
But the Government they elected has never been given a chance to govern. [More…]
Those who should be accused of immorality are those who refused to accept the elected Labor Government of December 1972, those who have become inflated with power for 20 years previously, and those who set out to obstruct and hinder the elected Government of Australia in every possible way. [More…]
But if a Liberal- Country Party Government were elected to Parliament it would be prepared to hurt people to try to deal with inflation. [More…]
For the sake of political gain they seek to destroy every vestige of democracy in this country and to throw out the popularly elected Government for sheer political power. [More…]
elected years ago, are trying to vote a duly elected government out of office. [More…]
Yet there are people who sit in the other place who were elected years ago and who seek to bring down this Government for reasons which the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) mentioned are completely contrary to every democratic process. [More…]
When was it democratic theory that the people should have no opportunity, when the Parliament gave them that opportunity, to have another look at a government which had been elected democratically? [More…]
We are extraordinarily fortunate that this is a country which has a democratically elected lower House and a democratically elected upper House, that it has no House of Lords and that there is an opportunity for the people, where there is a basic and real impasse in the government of the country, to be given another chance to have a say. [More…]
When the honourable member for Chisholm (Mr Staley) first came into this Parliament it was after I had been elected to it. [More…]
House of Representatives is the popularly elected House and only the House of Representatives reflects the view of the people at any time. [More…]
It relies, as we do at the moment, on a Senate not elected on the basis of population but purely on the basis of area. [More…]
Some of the senators who are now purporting to pass judgment on the affairs of the House of Representatives were elected when the late lamented Harold Holt was Prime Minister so long ago yet those ancient, decripit old gentlemen - except for the Labor Party Senators - now seek to . [More…]
Of the 60 senators, 48 are party appointees under the system under which they are elected. [More…]
There are 12 elected members in the Senate, and most of those senators are, in fact, elected because of the general voting trends in the States they represent. [More…]
In a House where half of the present members were elected on a policy of sending conscripts to Vietnam - one wonders how irrelevant to contemporary politics such a situation could be - people are prepared to assume responsibility for the financial authority of the country. [More…]
If a story were to read: ‘Once upon a time a member of a newly elected government won a seat by 35 votes and then that government, at a time of desperation, took action to try to save that seat’ - we would have the key to the successful initiation of this Brisbane Airport project. [More…]
About ten or eleven months after the Labor Government was elected he suddenly became aware that Brisbane had an airport and he made a few speeches, not that there was much substance in what he said, on the subject during adjournment debates. [More…]
All three reports prepared by the Bureau since the present Government was elected have been made public. [More…]
At the meeting referred to on 23 February 1974, representatives of 27 consumer groups agreed to establish an Australian Federation of Consumer Groups, and elected a steering committee to draft a constitution for further consideration. [More…]
He referred also to the intention to establish an elected consultative body with which the Government will confer on matters affecting Aboriginals. [More…]
Under the Interim Constitution, legislative powers are exercised by the National Assembly comprising a majority of members elected on the basis of universal adult franchise. [More…]
I have great confidence that Mr Cope will again exert his best influence and his best efforts to ensure that the affairs of this Parliament and this House are conducted in a manner befitting the traditions of the honour which has been bestowed and the responsibility which has been imposed on every member who is elected to this House. [More…]
The honourable member for Angas was first elected to this House in 1964, having previously served 5 years in the Parliament of South Australia. [More…]
Since that time, he has been re-elected at successive general elections in 1966, 1969, 1972 and 1974. [More…]
He was elected to this House in 1955 as the member for Cook. [More…]
The position of Speaker of this House as of the presiding officer in the other place, where Senator O’Byrne has just been elected President, is one of great difficulty and one which requires experience in chairmanship and in Parliament. [More…]
One of the things that we on this side of the House are entitled to do is to choose the people who will represent us in the Ministry and the people who will stand for those offices in the Parliament for which they are elected by the members of the Parliament. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition, who will find out shortly that he lost the election - I repeat it; and in another place they reckon that is right, too - said on the occasion of the honourable member for Sydney being elected as Mr Speaker: [More…]
It has been the custom in this Parliament for a speaker to be elected from the Government side. [More…]
I think there is a case to be made out for having a Speaker who is not elected from the Government side. [More…]
It is very invidious for a Speaker who is elected from the Government side and is be [More…]
As my friend the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) asked: How much notice can one take of the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) when he has said in this House that honourable members of the Australian Country Party have never been elected on the first ballot? [More…]
Mr Cope is therefore declared elected. [More…]
Mr Speaker, on behalf of my Party I congratulate you on being re-elected to this august position, the supreme position in this House. [More…]
When you were first elected, I congratulated you. [More…]
Council for the Capital Territory will be replaced with wholly elected Assemblies. [More…]
Along with the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), I was in this place in 1946 when Nick McKenna was first elected to the Chifley Cabinet and as the Minister for Educa tion said, his was a most distinguished contribution to the work of that Cabinet. [More…]
About 150 members of this Parliament have died in the period since I was first elected to this place. [More…]
Before being elected as member for Adelaide in 1958, he had been Assistant SecretaryTreasurer of the Building Workers Industrial Union of South Australia in the years 1950 to 1952, then organiser of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
In 1953 he was elected Secretary of the South Australian Branch of the Party, a redoubtable training ground for parliamentarians, his predecessor being Senator Toohey and his successors, the honourable member for Bonython (Mr Nicholls), the South Australian Minister for Transport, and the new honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young). [More…]
One expects him to be a man of that character because in 1967 he was elected by the people of Corio, an area renowned for sound judgment, discernment and discrimination. [More…]
There is no doubt that in his parliamentary service, elected to this chamber as he was initially by a by-election on 22 March 1952, and in his subsequent effective membership of this chamber he has demonstrated a knowledge and a capacity which I believe of itself alone qualifies him for the appointment which this House is now considering. [More…]
I would like to congratulate the honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock) on being elected again as Chairman of Committees and Deputy Speaker. [More…]
We recognise that the honourable member for Corio too has a knowledge of the Standing Orders of this chamber and has done his best in the circumstances when he has been in control of the chamber; but the position, Mr Speaker, is that he who is elected serves first as your deputy and secondly as the Chairman of Committees. [More…]
Of course, the co-operation would be the same no matter from which party the Chairman of Committees was elected, but, this friendship, this co-operation, this liaison between the principal officer of the Parliament, the Speaker, and his deputy, the Chairman of Committees, is very important. [More…]
Mr Scholes is declared elected. [More…]
Mr Speaker, it is just 7 years this month since the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) was elected to the House. [More…]
It is with very great pleasure that I, for the second time, congratulate him on being elected Chairman of Committees. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I congratulate the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) on being elected by the House as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
I congratulate the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) on being elected Chairman of Committees. [More…]
He has a smile on his face now, having been elected. [More…]
I really do not think that one is elected Chairman of Committees to be a comedian; I think one is elected Chairman of Committees to conduct the affairs of the House. [More…]
I suppose the honourable member will be praying for it to stop so that there might be the kind of conditions that members opposite hope might get them elected to the government of this country. [More…]
So the first point that I make is that I do not believe that the Leader of the House (Mr Daly) realises how necessary it is, if matters such as these are to be considered effectively, that those who have been elected to this House following the last election should have the chance to debate these pieces of legislation. [More…]
In these circumstances, I do not believe it is reasonable to expect that the people of Australia and the elected members of this House would be content to believe that there could be adequate debate of the legislation which is before us in the time proposed. [More…]
It is important that the Australian people should recognise that a party which is supposedly dedicated to the abolition of the Senate - for that is what its policy says - is forcing debate of these piece of legislation from this, the principal elected chamber of the Parliament, into the other chamber. [More…]
The Bill provides for the election of 2 senators each for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory and that such senators have the same powers, immunities and privileges as senators representing the States; that the first election of Territory senators be held at the same time as the next Senate elections in the several States or at the same time as the next general elections for members of the House of Representatives, if such is held before or in conjunction with the next Senate elections; that the term of the first Territory senators be from the date of their election until the eve of polling day for the ensuing general election for members of the House of Representatives; that after the first election for Territory senators elections be held at the same time as the general elections for members of the House of Representatives; that after the first election of Territory senators, the terms of Territory senators be the period between each House of Representatives election; and for the Territory senators to be elected under the same system of proportional representation as that currently applicable to the election of senators representing the States, except in the case of a single casual vacancy when such vacancy shall be filled by the holding of a by-election adopting the procedures used for filling a single casual vacancy for a State senator, as far as may be applicable. [More…]
It would appear then to be more just to have an even number elected each time for each Territory, thus allowing the representation of the parties to be more evenly balanced than would be the case if only one senator for each Territory were provided. [More…]
Under the provisions of the Bill, after the first election of Territory senators, both senators for each Territory will be elected each time there is a general election of the House of Representatives. [More…]
Indeed, given the propensity that this Government has for allowing full and adequate debate in the Senate it could well be that, if we were to pass this piece of legislation, the situation could develop whereby those -who are senators or part-senators from the Territories would have a greater opportunity to discuss significant pieces of legislation affecting the wellbeing of the Australian people than those who are their elected representatives in this chamber. [More…]
In other words, what the Labor Party is seeking to do is to have elected to the Senate people who will not be given the same opportunity to express a point of view as other senators because they are to be constricted in their voting rights. [More…]
As I understand it, 2 senators will be elected from each territory and the basis of their election will be proportional representation for 3-year terms. [More…]
This is a new Parliament with 17 new members in this House - democratically elected by more than 500,000 people on 18 May - who will be denied the opportunity to debate this fantastically important issue. [More…]
I should like to remind him that this is a House of Parliament democratically elected and by this tactic the Government is denying the rights of every member of this House, including the 17 new ones, to talk about an issue that affects every Australian now living and every Australian to be born. [More…]
Yet we are told - not only members on this side of the House but also the newly elected Australian Labor Party members - like little children in primary school that we must conclude all our arguments on this momentous issue in just 2 hours. [More…]
In dealing with these aspects, I am conscious that I am repeating some of the arguments made by myself and other speakers in the December debate but, unlike the Government, we recognise that this is a new Parliament and that there are elected representatives of the people here who have not necessarily heard those arguments or been allowed to participate in them. [More…]
I think that when we talk about adequate parliamentary debate we are talking about discussion sufficient to air the issues, discussion sufficient to clarify any issues which require clarification for the public, and discussion adequate to allow the topic before the House to go into the community as well so that some feedback can come to elected members in this place. [More…]
If it will not dawn on the Leader of the Opposition that that is the case he can be shown only when he puts up motions like this and they are defeated by the vote of the majority elected by the Australian people. [More…]
I had handed to me by the Federal President of the Australian Medical Association this afternoon what I would describe as an ultimatum on behalf of most of the private practice doctors in the Australian Capital Territory, not acting as a union on behalf of people who are negotiating conditions of employment but as a body delivering an ultimatum saying that they refuse the right of the elected Government of this country or indeed any authority in the Australian Capital Territory to increase the public sector of health care in this community. [More…]
Since Labor was elected in 1972, and more especially since the beginning of this year, home seekers and the housing industry generally have come under direct attack as a result of this Government’s policies. [More…]
When elected to Government we shall re-introduce this scheme and improve it to include single people. [More…]
I feel very deeply honoured at being the first woman elected to this House as an endorsed Labor Party candidate. [More…]
When the Government was elected in 1972 the people of Australia knew exactly what it proposed. [More…]
Although in the office of Solicitor-General I had the great honour to represent our people in many places both here and overseas, to sit in this House as the elected representative of the Division of Wentworth is to me the greatest honour of all. [More…]
I wish to express my gratitude to those who elected me, and to affirm my determination to serve all within my electorate whatever their political persuasion. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to establish a fully elected Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory consisting of 19 members to replace the present Legislative Council comprised of 1 1 elected members and 6 official members. [More…]
The elected members of the Legislative Council unanimously favour a Legislative Assembly of 19 members. [More…]
At present the Administrator’s Council consists of 2 official members and 3 elected members; and clause 16 provides, inter alia, for the continuation of ordinances in force at the time the Legislative Assembly is constituted. [More…]
Recent events affecting the operation of this Parliament have made it necessary for the Government to proceed with this Bill as a matter of priority in these sittings so that elections might be held on that date and the Government’s undertaking to give the people of the Northern Territory a fully elected legislature by the end of this year, might be kept. [More…]
I ask: ‘What more important matter can any Minister have than to be present and hear the debate in the national Parliament by the elected representatives of the people?’ [More…]
But, if ever a Government put forward strongly the view that it would increase foreign aid and drew attention to the needs of other countries and the capacity of Australia to increase foreign aid, it was this Government when it was first elected in December 1972. [More…]
To think that any member would deny the rights of a fellow elected member to put a point of view would always be beyond me. [More…]
Also, he has finally admitted that the Liberals will abandon Labor’s home mortgage tax deductibility scheme, so if the Liberals are elected the average home owner can write off $250 every year on his tax rebate. [More…]
Also, he has finally admitted the Liberals will abandon Labor’s home mortgage tax deductibility scheme, so if the Liberals are elected the average home owner can write-off $250 every year of his tax rebate. [More…]
Earlier in the year he announced that a 19-man Legislative Assembly would be elected later in the year, ft also will take away the importance of the decisions to be made by this Committee. [More…]
The timing of the introduction of that Bill into the House - which will ensure that members will be elected on 24 October so that there can be a fully elected Legislative Assembly before the end of December this year - hinged on the statement of policy that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) made off the top of his head that that would be so. [More…]
Anyone who knows anything about the Northern Territory knows that that date for having a fully elected Legislative Assembly - by that 1 mean one with executive authority and not just 19 men milling around the Assembly chamber with no policy, no leadership, no means of introducing government business, no means of asking questions and no government member in there at all - makes a farce of the Committee and of the Bill. [More…]
No doubt there are thoughts of it but the Assembly will be elected on 24 October and no one will really know which way they are going or what will be run by whom in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Of course, we did recommend in October that the Legislative Council be enlarged, that it be a fully elected Council and that it have executive responsibility. [More…]
1 am pleased to see that in the Australian Capital Territory, for instance, there are moves towards embodying executive authority within a fully elected legislature. [More…]
If there is to be in the Northern Territory an elected legislature with 19 or 20 members - it does not matter how many - it must assume responsibility for determining the priorities for expenditure and some responsibility for raising the revenue, or at least some of the revenue, to meet those priorities. [More…]
I do not altogether go along with that, because if the elected representatives prove to be unacceptable to the people of the Northern Territory undoubtedly they will be voted out of office at the next election. [More…]
The Committee, prior to the double dissolution, was half way through taking evidence and completing an important report which was to contain recommendations to the Parliament on the setting up of a fully elected Legislative Council in the Northern Territory and the powers which should be exercised by it. [More…]
To make it clear to those honourable members who may not be so interested, let me say that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), in his usual desire to honour his promises to the Aus tralian people, stated in his pre-election speech in 1972 that by the end of 1974 the Northern Territory would have a fully elected Legislative Council. [More…]
All honourable members are, or should be, aware that the Northern Territory Legislative Council, as it is now constituted, has 11 members elected by the community and 6 nominated members. [More…]
For instance, the Committee was asked to advise the Government as to the manner in which the proposed new legislative assembly should be elected, what the proposed electoral divisions should be and what kind of electoral system should be introduced. [More…]
Then the Minister, with the Committee’s report in hand, is to have a discussion with these persons who will be elected under the redistribution, the machinery for which he has set in motion. [More…]
Yet the Minister is asking for a report to be on hand when he goes to discuss the newly elected legislative assembly. [More…]
But whatever he does to us he cannot, because of these problems, make us prepare a sensible report that will be of benefit to the Minister by the time he goes to discuss the matter with the newly elected House of Assembly. [More…]
Firstly, he said that the Bill to provide for a fully elected Legislative Assembly of 19 members has in fact taken away the value of the Committee. [More…]
I say very clearly to him that every action that I have taken with respect to the time-table for the establishment of the new Legislative Assembly has been taken in full consultation and co-operation with the present elected members of the Legislative Council. [More…]
They deliberated on this question and to a man and to a woman they said that in no circumstances would they agree to any significant extension of their term of office, and that they were elected by the people of the Northern Territory for 3 years. [More…]
They were elected for 3 years and 3 years only. [More…]
If we had another election in the circumstances of the 1 1 elected members it would make quite a farce of the situation. [More…]
The members deliberated and agreed that they wanted to achieve a fully elected Legislative Assembly by the end of the year. [More…]
We do not believe that there should be a constant policy of auditing by Federal Government officials of elected local government officials. [More…]
Quite clearly those people elected to office in local government are able to make their decisions close to the people affected. [More…]
In the short time in which 1 have represented Fraser 1 have come to realise the full extent of the extremely heavy work-load with which the late Jim Fraser had to contend in looking after the whole of the Australian Capital Territory in the absence of other traditional forms of elected representation by local government bodies and State governments. [More…]
One of course is the welcome announcement by the Government that it is intended to give the ACT a fully elected assembly in the life of the present Parliament. [More…]
I believe that the quality of the form of self-government which is eventually decided upon or which may develop will depend to a very large extent upon the degree of public participation in community affairs and the extent to which decision making is delegated to locally elected representatives. [More…]
To restrict an elected body to such functions would not be acceptable to the citizens of Canberra as it would ignore the absence from the A.C.T. [More…]
To deny to an elected body control over such elements would he in direct contradiction to the Government’s stated intention of achieving a high degree of public participation in community affairs in the A.C.T. [More…]
To this end I suggest that any elected self-governing body should have a voice on the National Capital Development Commission. [More…]
Such decision making should be delegated to an elected assembly or to a statutory authority which should he responsible to the assembly rather than to the Minister concerned. [More…]
I am suggesting that those bodies ultimately should be made responsible to the elected assembly rather ‘ than to the responsible Ministers. [More…]
It is also tantamount to saying that a Minister of the Australian Government who has overall responsibilities for broad policy can he more responsive to the needs of local citizens than the representatives elected by and subject to recall by those citizens. [More…]
I suggest that the very fact that this attitude is abroad is a timely warning that people can become conditioned to domination by non-elected bureaucrats and technocrats to the extent that they are willing to forgo their democratic right to self-government and to evade the acceptance of responsibility for their own government through elected representatives. [More…]
To support this statement I would like to point out that in the States the number of electors for each elected legislator, including local State and Australian government representatives ranges from one legislator to each 387 electors in Western Australia to one legislator to each 1,182 electors in New South Wales; whereas in the ACT, even allowing for the proposed new assembly we would have only one legislator for more than 5,000 electors. [More…]
I must say that the decision of last week to give the ACT an enlarged assembly of 18 elected people with no legislative powers initially merely means that a powerless body of 8 elected members is being replaced by an equally powerless body of 18 elected members. [More…]
As it is, over 100 of them have been set up since this Government was elected. [More…]
Calls upon the administering Powers concerned to take all the necessary steps, without further delay, to ensure the full and speedy attainment of the goals set forth in the Declaration with respect to the Territories and, in that regard, to establish, in consultation with the freely elected representatives of the people, a specific time-table for the free exercise by the peoples of the Territories of their right to selfdetermination and independence; [More…]
Since this Government was elected in December 1972 we have seen a tremendous reduction in the exploration for oil, gas and minerals. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition at that time, who is now the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), tried to point out to the people of Australia that they could expect industrial peace if the Australian Labor Party were elected to government. [More…]
It has always eluded me completely why these ex-trade union secretaries having been elected to parliament seem to divorce themselves from any responsibility in industrial relations other than the one they previously had. [More…]
Time and again we see perfectly good trade union secretaries - even though to some of us their accents might seem to be extraordinary - elected to parliament but once they are elected they forget their new responsibilities and still think they are trade union secretaries. [More…]
Killen), the honourable member for Brisbane (Mr Cross) and, despite the fact that he was out of office for 18 months, the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns), who was first elected in 1963. [More…]
I have allowed the honourable member a reasonable degree of latitude in his opening remarks, but I remind him that the Bill deals with the establishment of a fully elected Legislative Assembly for the Northern Terri tory. [More…]
It moved from being a body in which there was a dominance of official appointees to a body on which 3 non-official appointees held the balance of power, and to the present Council of 17 members, 11 elected by vote and 6 public servant appointees. [More…]
This legislation will allow for the election of 19 councillors, one of whom will be elected as Speaker by his fellow councillors. [More…]
The discussions which ensued resulted in support for the principle enshrined in this legislation of a fully elected Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
I cannot see in this legislation any indication of the formation of electoral divisions in the Northern Territory or the nature of those divisions, and we must bear in mind that the election for the fully elected Northern Territory Legislative Assembly must be held before 24 October 1974. [More…]
A ‘swifty’ report on the Committee’s references will not be conducive to the future development of the fully elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
Under this legislation the Northern Territory is to get a fully elected Legislative Assembly but not self-government. [More…]
I am sure that the people of the Territory, particularly those who are to take part in the proposed election and who will perhaps sit on the first fully elected constitutional body in the Territory, are anxiously waiting for clarification from the Minister. [More…]
Will the people be faced with a situation in which there will be 19 elected councillors with no defined tasks? [More…]
What are the powers of this newly elected body going to be? [More…]
However, if the Territory Executive elected not to match State revenue efforts its total revenue, including the Commonwealth grant, would not be sufficient to finance the same standard of service as the States enjoy. [More…]
Mr FitzPATRICK (Darling) (12.54)- I support the Northern Territory (Administration) Bill which proposes to establish a fully elected assembly for the Northern Territory. [More…]
Another argument in favour of a fully elected Legislative Assembly in the Northern Territory is that this House will be able to get a report from the Assembly to consider at the same time as the report that is to be brought down by the Northern Territory Committee. [More…]
Another legislative councillor said that the Minister was far too busy to go to the Northern Territory to discuss matters with the elected member who had the courtesy to write to him indicating that urgent discussions were needed. [More…]
In one small paragraph of the second reading speech, the Minister does say that 5 members of the new Assembly will be elected to the Administrator’s Council. [More…]
In the original scheme, 2 official members and 3 elected members of the Legislative Council were members of the Administrator’s Council. [More…]
Mr Ward made the very good suggestion that the 5 Assembly members elected to the Administrator’s Council should have responsibility for 5 of the departments responsible for administering various matters in the Northern Territory. [More…]
In the time remaining to me, I point out that if the Government does hold the election for the new assembly on 19 October - the term of the present Legislative Council expires on 24 October and the Minister is under the whip, as it were, of the Prime Minister to produce a fully elected body prior to the end of the year - the date proposed for the closing of nominations is 11 October. [More…]
You can take 19 elected members, 2 teaspoonsful of hope and a dash of finance and you can have instant government. [More…]
One of the things that the Committee of which I was a member did when it was in Darwin was to hear evidence from members of the Legislative Council about the future role of an autonomous local government in the Territory, lt caused me some degree of disquiet to hear the attitude of some of the elected members of the Legislative Council, because I fear that if their views are able to prevail in a future self-governing Northern Territory we might have a situation of tyranny by the majority of the minority in 2 particular respects. [More…]
Of course a government in the Northern Territory would have to be elected by the majority. [More…]
Mr KELLY (Wakefield) (2.45>- The purpose of this Bill is to provide for the election of a fully elected Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory. [More…]
One can imagine the embarrassment that will occur at a political meeting if someone were to ask a candidate from the back of the hall what he is going to do when he is elected, and what his task will be when he is elected and the candidate were to say: T do not know. [More…]
It would be better - this may be a counsel of perfection - if it is known before the election is held what will be the duties of the people who are elected at that election. [More…]
But unfortunately that is not so because the Minister for the Northern Territory (Dr Patterson) has made it clear that after the election in October he is going to approach the members of the newly-elected Legislative Assembly and they are going to sort out some of the problems as to the form of government they are going to administer. [More…]
When the Minister discusses with the members of the newly-elected Legislative Assembly in October what they are going to govern, he is not going to have an easy task. [More…]
The Minister will have to have discussions with the members of the newly-elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
I hope that the members of the Northern Territory Assembly, when they are elected, will also realise that self government is not just something about which to make speeches but something which creates infinite difficulty and pain before eventually it is made to work. [More…]
Given the advice by the Legislative Council - what the elected members wanted - I acted in good faith. [More…]
Without question, without any shadow of doubt, their number one priority was to get what they had been striving for for a very long time - a fully elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
The suggestion was made to me by lawyer members in the Legislative Council that we should go slowly, that the first step should be to get the fully elected Legislative Council. [More…]
It may be that we do not have now as we had before the backing of all the elected members of the Legislative Council. [More…]
I shall have the greatest pleasure in letting the honourable member know which members of the Legislative Council support the honourable member in his opposition to a fully elected Legislative Assembly toy the end of this year. [More…]
He wants to delay giving to the people of the Northern Territory a fully elected Legislative Assembly by the end of this year. [More…]
Yet the elected members of the Legislative Council, who represent the people of the Northern Territory, put that as their number one priority for constitutional reform in the Northern Territory. [More…]
If he speaks for the elected members of the Legislative Council and for the people of the Northern Territory he has told us what they want, but I frankly do not believe it. [More…]
I am guided, I have been guided and I have taken notice all along of the elected members of the Northern Territory Legislative Council. [More…]
But when I put this to the members of the Legislative Council they said: ‘We were elected for 3 years and only 3 years. [More…]
They are the elected representatives of the people of the Northern Territory. [More…]
They were elected for 3 years. [More…]
Yes, I would like to see the Committee furnish its report before the new Legislative Assembly is elected. [More…]
We have done everything that we could to meet the wishes of the elected members of the Legislative Council and we will continue to do so. [More…]
But the Government is determined to give self-government through a fully elected Legislative Assembly to the Northern Territory. [More…]
Either he is extraordinaily ignorant of the files on record in his Department on this subject, or he is plainly trying to delude himself and probably those in the Caucus who elected him to the Ministry that he is a man of great initiative and enterprise. [More…]
Now, as for the Minister at the table no one would be surprised that he wouldusethese initiatives in the Labor Party room toconvince those who sit behind him that hehas the makings of a statesman and is therefore worthy of being re-elected to theMinistry.Butitis plain balderdash, and indeeddishonest,for him to come into this Parliament orthepublic arena outside to make such a claim.Heknows as well as I do that he would nothavebeenin a position to enter into negotiationwiththe [More…]
Since this Government was elected we have seen, as I said earlier, compassion expressed in the dairying industry in another way, that is, in the loss of 10,000 dairy farmers. [More…]
He listed the proposal as one in which a coalition government, if elected on May 18, would exercise moderation. [More…]
On reading that document the Prime Minister would know that $20m was in addition - it specifically said so - to all commitments that were made by the previous Government - that is, the Whitlam Government that was elected in 1972. [More…]
Medical members of the Association shall be elected by the Council or by a Committee appointed by the Council with power in that behalf. [More…]
If he believes that setting up a conflict between the officially elected representatives of unions, by appealing over their heads to the rank and file membership, will establish industrial peace in this country his attitude to these problems must be naive indeed. [More…]
The second is that the taxes and charges raised by elected governments are to be spent in a way determined by Commonwealth Ministers or Commonwealth public servants. [More…]
The States had supposed that it was established to the satisfaction of all reasonable people that it was not reasonable that the Commonwealth should participate in the management of State instrumentalities or State bodies, the policies of which were the direct responsibility of the elected State government. [More…]
The concept which is seen here, as in so many other areas, is that the States are forced to tax regardless of their own policies, or the policies under which they may have been elected. [More…]
Redrafting is required urgently for the Bills violate State constitutional authority force substantial increases in State motor taxation reduce effective expenditures on roads ensure chaotic delays in road programs threaten to penalise States for possible actions by local authorities and place power to veto elected State government decisions in hands of Commonwealth public servants. [More…]
Here then is a Government twice elected, elected on a program twice endorsed. [More…]
The question is whether the parliamentary system is to be allowed to operate, whether the Government elected to operate it for 3 years is to be allowed to implement the program the people elected us to implement. [More…]
Hitherto Australian governments have been able to plan for the term for which they were elected. [More…]
They could develop their programs in the confident belief that they would be judged by the people on their whole performance during the whole of their elected term or at least as long as they retained a working majority in this House, the people’s House. [More…]
In this newly elected House the Government has never lost any of the 23 divisions or looked like losing one. [More…]
The shortcomings of the Australian economy have been displayed in sharp relief as a result of the determination of this Government to spread the riches more equitably and to push this nation towards the ideals so clearly enunciated in the platform on which this Government has now twice been elected. [More…]
Who could blame local government people for believing that a great new world would open up before them if they elected a Labor government? [More…]
Who could blame local government people and all those associated with local government for imagining that if they elected Mr Whitlam to be Prime Minister of Australia new days would dawn in local government understanding? [More…]
Has the Government made efforts to enable the United Nations Security Council, of which Australia is presently an elected member, to meet and discuss physical conflict and loss of life on and near the Paracel Islands involving China and South Vietnam? [More…]
Yes, the Australian Labor Party did promise prior to the 1972 election that, if it were elected to government and if it were given the opportunity to put into effect its industrial relations policy by way of making certain amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, it could and would introduce a better industrial relations climate. [More…]
The elected Government in Victoria has for years and years had a road safety committee to investigate these matters. [More…]
This Bill will prevent an elected State government which wants to go to the people with a policy of taxing motorists to raise money for roads from laying down its program. [More…]
No Act of this Parliament should convey that power and privilege without first seeking the agreement either of the Australian people or of the elected State governments. [More…]
Secondly, the taxes and charges raised by elected State governments and local government authorities are to be spent in a way determined by Commonwealth Ministers or those Ministers’ delegates who, of course, by definition will be public servants. [More…]
Having elected it into government the new Cabinet or the returned Cabinet can, in accordance with its electoral mandate, formulate plans to build those roads. [More…]
If this happens it will not be long before tha people in their electorates and municipalities start to realise that their elected officials no longer have responsibility. [More…]
I reject that sort of proposition not because I do not want to stop that expressway proposal but because I believe that the people who have the responsibility of making that decision are the New South Wales Government, the government elected by the people of New South Wales. [More…]
This clause is very much the centre of the whole problem with this legislation in that it gives the Federal Minister the right to delegate to any officer in his department the authority to override decisions taken by elected State governments or elected local government bodies. [More…]
I do not believe that the Minister for Urban and Regional Develop- ment (Mr Uren) has any right to delegate an officer who will then have the right to override elected State governments and elected local government bodies. [More…]
In this case a delegated officer can overrule the wishes of an elected State government or a democratically elected local government body. [More…]
I repeat that such an officer can override the wishes of a fully and democratically elected State government or local government body. [More…]
Furthermore again, if Government is to remain responsible not just to Parliament but to those governed, it is most important that people can easily and personally take issue with their elected representatives. [More…]
I also convey my congratulations to the other new members on their contributions to this House through their maiden speeches- It is a significant honour to have been elected by the people of Hume to be their representative in this Parliament. [More…]
In those circumstances the quality of representation would be greatly undermined as electors faced continual changes in both their elected representatives and their electorates. [More…]
We know that we are afflicted in this country- I use the word ‘afflicted’ advisedly- by Upper Houses which are not democratically elected, which are not elected by the people, which flout the very principle about which Benjamin Franklin talked in his words that I read to the Parliament. [More…]
It is a most important part of our democratic structure that governments should be elected on the basis of one person one vote. [More…]
Day after day he argued that it was undemocratic and unfair that a government should be frustrated by senators who in some cases had been elected several years before Labor came to power. [More…]
In fact, quotas are determined on population and the first 75 members that were elected to this place were elected on the basis of roughly 50,000 electors per member. [More…]
They are elected as legislators, not just to become mere letter carriers to indicate that they have made some telephone call to a Minister and therefore that they are representing an area well- not at all. [More…]
It is because of a double dissolution caused by senators who are elected on the basis that they will look after State rights. [More…]
Admittedly, as a result of the double dissolution we did remove a splinter Party which supported the Liberal Party and the Australian Country Party through thick and thin but did not have enough votes to have one person elected to the House of Representatives. [More…]
There is no obstructionism from the Senate if we are democrats and recognise that the voice of the people can be expressed in 2 chambers each elected on a democratic basis. [More…]
If, for example, one looks at the quotas which senators have to achieve to be elected in the States of New South Wales and Victoria at a periodic half Senate election, and then looks at what would be required to elect a senator from the Territories one will have not only a remarkable admiration for the dexterity with which the one vote one value principle can be espoused and then denied by members of the Labor Party, but also a picture of how unjust the representation would be. [More…]
In 1970- the figures would be greater now, of course- a person required almost 300,000 votes to be elected as a senator in New South Wales. [More…]
But to be elected a senator for the Australian Capital Territory all that would have been required in 1973 was 28,000 votes and to be elected a senator from the Northern Territory all that would have been required was 10,600 votes. [More…]
As far as I can understand the system, senators, who are not State government people and who are not elected to the Senate as representatives of the New South Wales Government, the Queensland Government, the Victorian Government, the Tasmanian Government or the Western Australian Government, are elected to the Senate according to a different system of elections than those relating to the House of Representatives, but just as members of the House of Representatives are elected to that House to represent the people of a particular part of Australia, so too do senators represent people and not State governments. [More…]
A little while ago in the House of Representatives we heard the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) say in respect of one of the measures that the Joint Sitting will discuss tonight or tomorrow- I refer to the National Health legislation which proposes a health scheme on which this Government campaigned and was elected; it was proposed first to the Australian people in 1968 and was restated in 1969, 1972 and 1974-that he and the Opposition would go to the barricades rather than yield one iota, one inch, to the will of the people. [More…]
It is not an artificial argument to consider that members of the Senate are voted for and are elected by the electorate of Australia. [More…]
I rather thought he would be most apprehensive after the allegation which he has made about people who have been validly elected to a corporation which was established by vote in this chamber and, in the electoral process. [More…]
Now he queries the basis on which those people were elected. [More…]
Mr Chairman, we believe that as the Northern Territory moves towards statehood it should be given an opportunity to have the same sort of Senate voice as every other State, not a watered down Senate voice with senators who are to be elected for less than a full term and senators who are to be restricted in such a way as to reduce the power of those who are normal members of the Senate. [More…]
It is not surprising that the elected members of the Northern Territory Legislative Council have for a number of years pressured Federal governments to give Senate representation to the people of the Northern Territory. [More…]
Because we believe that all senators should be elected at the same time as House of Representatives elections are held, we have written this present provision into the Bill which we hope after today will become the law of Australia. [More…]
Somehow it is suggested that because people live in these territories they are unworthy of being represented in the Senate and that elected representatives from the territories should not sit in the Senate. [More…]
They will be elected on different terms and at different times but with powers equal to any other bona fide senator. [More…]
It was largely due to the pressures applied by the honourable member for the Northern Territory and the elected members of the Northern Territory Legislative Council that the former Liberal Party-Country Party Government made a firm offer to the Northern Territory towards constitutional advancement and executive power. [More…]
On present growth forecasts if they were elected at the time of the next electionin about 3 years time- they would each represent more than the number of people represented by each senator from Tasmania, [More…]
If we take a broader view and look at all the elected people in the States, the position is even more remarkable. [More…]
If we in the Australian Capital Territory had our new assembly of 18 elected legislative assembly members, 2 members of the House of Representatives and 2 senators, we would have one elected person to more than 5,000 electors. [More…]
If we look at the smallest States, we see that Western Australia has one elected member for each 387 electors, South Australia has one elected member for every 527 electors and Tasmania has one elected representative for each 480 electors. [More…]
I would not go before the people in an election campaign and advocate a policy in opposition of Labor, and then because the Government got a miserable majority of 5 in one House and a minority of 2 in another, come here and desert the causes that people elected me to represent. [More…]
We are elected by the people on adult suffrage with potency equal to that of the gentlemen and ladies who inhabit the House of Representatives. [More…]
They are to go out every time the Prime Minister goes to the hustings, in the hope that he can get a Labor senator elected from each of the Territories. [More…]
They elected 6 senators and 5 members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
These are the realities of the Senate: Because it is elected equally from the States, it is almost bound to be equally divided after an election. [More…]
But let me say something about it and for it as a non-voter in the Australian Capital Territory but as one who has been deeply involved in it ever since I was elected to this place 19 years ago. [More…]
We may well take the honourable member for Moreton at his word and have 5, 15 or 50 senators from each Territory, but so long as they are elected on the system advocated and proposed in the Bill it will not make a jot of difference to the balance in the Senate. [More…]
The honourable Minister appears far too busy of late to come to the Territory to discuss matters with elected members even when they paid the courtesy of writing to him or indicating that urgent discussions are needed. [More…]
Are members of the Opposition parties being so complimentary to us as to say that the Australian Labor Party will receive over twothirds of the votes in each of those Territories and thus have its senators elected? [More…]
What conceivable difference can it make from a party point of view if there are 2 senators from each Territory elected on the basis of proportional representation? [More…]
Does not reason suggest that there will be one member in support of the Government and one member in support of the Opposition elected from each of these Territories? [More…]
The reason is that in the House of government the Australian Labor Party has a majority to which it was elected, and in the Senate a combination of misfit organisations holds a majority owing to the flukes of preferential voting. [More…]
I have always been a little mystified as to why the fact that someone was elected to Parliament in 1 899 makes him more sagacious than somebody who was elected to Parliament in 1974. [More…]
We say that each of those 2 senators should be elected by the proportional representation system on each occasion that the elections take place. [More…]
There are to be senators from the States elected- the public has voted for this at Senate elections- separately, if necessary, as States and groups of States. [More…]
There are to be Territorial representatives elected at each House of Representatives election. [More…]
There are to be Territorial representatives elected under a formula of by-elections, quite differently. [More…]
The first member for the Northern Territory was elected in 1922, and until 1936 he had no vote in the House of Representatives. [More…]
They are to be elected differently. [More…]
Although we have been regarded as obstructing the wish of the Australian Government to introduce its health scheme, I believe that I represent the people of Victoria who have elected me to this place, and I assure them that it will not be my vote that will enable a nationalised health scheme to be introduced into this country. [More…]
In fact a most radical step was suggested- that members of the boards of these funds should be elected by the contributors. [More…]
But the Senate is a States House because there are 10 senators from each State elected to it so that an equal representation from each State is maintamed. [More…]
I think the people of Queensland should be congratulated on having elected Senator Sheil to the Senate. [More…]
For instance, the Hospital Benefits Association in Victoria is run by a committee of twenty-eight, only eight of whom are elected by the contributors. [More…]
In other words, in government the Liberal and Country Parties did not believe in governing and out of government they do not believe in allowing the elected popular government to govern. [More…]
He said that the Senate is not elected democratically. [More…]
Not democratically elected? [More…]
Senator Murphy will be upset about being accused of not being elected democratically. [More…]
The history of the United States would have been a lot better if a conservationist in the person of Senator Edward Muskie had been elected President instead of what did happen. [More…]
Under our out-of-date for the 1970s form of government, with the States warring with the Australian Government, a hostile Senate with extraordinary powers able to frustrate the will of the popularly elected House of Representatives, members of the Opposition have plenty of opportunities to practice this obstructionism. [More…]
The system is the institutions in this country and the major institution in Australia is the democratically elected Parliament. [More…]
If the democratically elected Parliament comes together it should not be deprived of the opportunity of exposing what has happened and what has not happened. [More…]
He would have been elected if he had stood, have no fear about that. [More…]
Is it yet possible to give any details of likely Australian industrial involvement in the production of equipment which has been under consideration since the Government was elected. [More…]
A week ago at the memorial service in St Andrew’s Church’ in Canberra I quoted the words he used tb describe his approach to foreign policy soon after his Government was elected. [More…]
He was elected VicePresident of the Labor Party in 1963 and went on to become the youngest elected leader of the party in its history. [More…]
He won a record majority in his own seat of Sydenham in the elections in 1969. , In 1970 he was elected Chairman of the Asian Bureau of the Socialist International. [More…]
But, as these things must happen, another man has been elected to lead the Labour Party in New Zealand. [More…]
His advice to me when I was first elected to this Parliament in 1969 was quite invaluable. [More…]
When I was first elected to this Parliament in 1945 he was a very kind and valued adviser to me, as a new member, about how to settle into the Parliament. [More…]
The Government was elected on 2 December. [More…]
The ‘ Government appears to be quite helpless in the face of this problem, and of course this is not surprising in a world in which the power of the trade unions exceeds the power of elected governments, particularly this Government that we have at the moment. [More…]
Accordingly I have the opportunity to follow immediately and then to get on with the business of the Parliament- of the Government elected to rule the country- in the terms of the notice paper and the blue program sheet which has been circulated. [More…]
From the day we were elected the Government has acted consistently to improve real living standards. [More…]
As to the idea of the Leader of the Opposition on leadership, all I can say is that it would be a damned sight easier for this Government to give leadership in our area of responsibility, governing Australia according to the program on which we were elected, if he were able to give some leadership in his area of responsibility. [More…]
If he could control his wild men in the Senate, if there were one Liberal Party in this Parliament instead of two, this Government would be much better able to get on with the job for which it has been twice elected and much better able to carry out its program which has been twice endorsed. [More…]
We can only act on the basis of the advice of the leadership group elected by the people of Papua New Guinea in this instance. [More…]
So if we are talking about indignation I would like the honourable member for Mackellar to consider you, Mr Speaker, on more occasions than in the past and also to consider members on this side of the House and other members of the Parliament who feel that they are elected to say something in this Parliament at odd times and particularly during the adjournment debate. [More…]
Consequently almost 1 million people had no say in what government was elected, irrespective of their political opinions. [More…]
I rise to draw attention further to the tragic circumstances in Western Australia where legislation which has been sent from the Lower House to the Upper House proposes to take from Australian citizens their basic freedoms at law and to give to an elected government powers which were not mentioned during that government’s election manifesto. [More…]
I was elected to this Parliament in 1967. [More…]
If honourable members opposite are suggesting that they enjoy some sort of purity in relation to increasing charges, I remind them again that I was elected to this Parliament after the then Opposition in the Senate, improperly in my view- I say that quite advisedly- had blocked increased postal charges, in May 1967, on exactly the same pretext as was used on this occasion, that is, that they should be included as a general budgetary item. [More…]
I will leave that aside but will get to the fact that in my State, anyway, elected Labor Party senators and others in the State field are refusing to attend growers’ meetings when they wish to register their protests. [More…]
I was elected to this Parliament in 1966 and took my seat in 1967. [More…]
I do not think that when the Australian people elected the Labor Party to government they realised how fierce those costs were going to be. [More…]
That is to say, the growers of the commodity, who in the final analysis are the owners of the commodity, elect to that Board people whom they deem fit to be elected as then representatives. [More…]
We are totally opposed to the proposition that a Minister sitting in another place can dismiss summarily people elected by the industry and have them replaced with some second-hand petty trade union official. [More…]
It should be added that the Labor Party platform, in providing for adequate representation for primary producers on ail boards effecting the handling and marketing of their products, does not preclude a majority of elected growers’ representatives on such boards. [More…]
I ask the Minister now to define the word ‘misbehaviour’ and state on what grounds a Minister may terminate the appointment of a responsibly elected member of the Australian Wheat Board. [More…]
At the subsequent State election, a new Liberal Government was elected. [More…]
But, of course, that Government could not be outdone by the greatest obstructionist in the Australian States, Sir Robert Askin, who went to the polls and was elected on a mandate to obstruct any action by the Federal Government, regardless of whether it was beneficial. [More…]
Imagine what would have happened if by some disaster he and his colleagues had been elected to government. [More…]
I want the Minister to tell us that the Government will not remove decent members of the Australian Wheat Board from the positions to which they have been elected by rank and file wheat growers and replace them with Al Grassby, Jack Egerton, Bob Hawke and even Jack Mundey or Halfpenny. [More…]
I believe that any elected representative must try to get access to a Minister and I try to meet as many applications as I can. [More…]
Since the Labor Government was elected in 1972 the excise on petroleum products has been increased twice. [More…]
This was a promise on which the Government was originally elected. [More…]
I also recall at the end of 1949 a Liberal-Country Party government being elected in Australia on the promise that it would put value back in the pound yet in 1 950 Australia experienced the highest rate of price increase ever in its history- an increase of 23 per cent or about half as much again as the worst that has occurred under the guidance of the Whitlam Labor Government. [More…]
Given that the Deputy Prime Minister is not only a member of the Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament but also, as I understand it, is its elected president, and given also the fact that that organisation is currently distributing brochures and pamphlets calling on this Government to adopt a non-aligned foreign policy for Australia, will the Prime Minister state unequivocally that non-alignment is not to be the foreign policy aim of his Government? [More…]
In doing so I remind honourable members that this Government was elected in 1972 on a program of social reform. [More…]
I want to record, very simply, a sense of honour and privilege at being elected to represent the people of Bennelong. [More…]
Honourable members opposite may complain about it, but the Australian people elected it in 1972 and reendorsed that decision in 1974. [More…]
In the case of a very strong Prime Minister, it could mean centralisation in the hands of one person, and where the Cabinet was generally lacklustre it would mean that power could reside in a few non-elected officials. [More…]
I am a long term admirer of the professional bureaucrats as public servants; that is, I admire their expertise as advisers, but wish to resist their being placed in the situation of supplanting the elected decision makers. [More…]
We need more amalgamations on both sides of the industrial fence and a greater centralisation of authority in the hands of persons elected to carry out the democratically ascertained views of the members. [More…]
His speech was one of utter exaggeration, and that is what we have had to put up with in this place ever since this Government was elected to office. [More…]
It is true that the dairy subsidy will be phased out at the end of next year but the Liberal-Country Party Government would not have retained it either had it been re-elected at the last general election. [More…]
I was elected to this Parliament in December 19SS and took my seat here in the first session in 1956. [More…]
I can remember one with Billy Hughes and Dick Casey, when we were elected with a very big majority and I increased my vote substantially for the first time. [More…]
He had a very great respect for the late Jim Scullin, a former Prime Minister who was still in the Parliament when I was first elected. [More…]
I do not know whether there is substance in them, but it is true that the Liberal Party at the last election obtained up to $2m to $3m from unknown sources in an endeavour to defeat the democratically elected Government. [More…]
Surely the Budget was not intended wittingly to discriminate as between, on the one hand, those older people who have elected, or by force of circumstances were compelled, to plan, save for and manage their own source of income in retirement and, on the other those, perhaps more fortunate, older people whose conditions of employment in their working lives have provided superannuation sufficient to satisfy all the needs of their retirement. [More…]
Honourable members should remember that it is all right for such changes to be made in the Caucus Room and flung into this House, but if the Senate- the Senate the other House elected by the Australian people- makes one suggestion or one amendment it is obstructionist and unreasonable. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party is a democratic Party, and the people who elected its members know that we go into this Parliament and work hard at policy making. [More…]
This leads to a position where different persons are eligible for membership, different persons are entitled to attend meetings, different persons are entitled to be elected to office and indeed the electorates are different. [More…]
or a returning officer having been elected by people who have no right to have participated in the election of that person- I am adding that to what His Honour says; that is something I just thought of myself and it is very relevant, of course: . [More…]
or in the conduct of an election such as the calling of nominations at the wrong time or the closing of the election at the wrong time or if persons not entitled to be admitted to membership or if entitled not properly admitted to membership, vote or are elected to office, there may be no validly constituted committee of management or officers. [More…]
It is the Labor Government elected in 1972. [More…]
Last year, soon after we were elected, a $lm subsidy was given to the ‘Empress of Australia’ for the passenger service. [More…]
Firstly, I remind the right honourable gentleman that, outside the leadership of the Labor Party, the Minister for Minerals and Energy was elected to the Ministry with the highest vote in June this year. [More…]
This Government and in particular the Premier, the Honourable Johannes BjelkePetersen, have been constant critics of the Australian Government since the very day it was elected. [More…]
The social aim is known, as it is to carry out this social aim for which the Labor Government has been elected on 2 occasions. [More…]
I rise to make my maiden speech fully conscious of the important task I have been given as the democratically elected representative of the people of Riverina. [More…]
It is a group of men led by a leader who is more concerned about tripping overseas with his public relations entourage to try to get Senator Willesee elected president of the United Nations. [More…]
I do not think that the people of Australia give a damn whether Senator Willesee is elected President of the United Nations. [More…]
It is condemning the principle that government should come from the elected members of the government party. [More…]
Every member of the Labor Caucus has been elected to this House or to the Senate. [More…]
It is relatively easy for the bureaucracy to govern when the elected members of Parliament have no say in the Government, and it is true that that is the model which the Opposition set when it was in Government. [More…]
We have nothing to be ashamed of in providing government by those people who were elected to govern. [More…]
One cannot help but compare the type of speech he elected to give with the type of speech given by the honourable member for Eden-Monaro (Mr Whan). [More…]
When that is brought forward the newly elected Legislative Assembly will be able to examine it along with the Trades and Labour Council, and I hope that before the end of the year we will be able to overcome this discrimination against these workers. [More…]
Since the last Parliament was elected the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) has taken over the leadership for the Opposition on these questions, having deposed the honourable member for Farrer (Mr Fairbairn). [More…]
He was then terribly concerned that some members of the Senate had been elected some years before. [More…]
The Government was elected on a grand design for income redistribution combined with social welfare policies to help the low income earners within our community, but it has ignored the fact that inflation is reducing the real purchasing power of income, that there is a rapidly falling value of money, that prices for goods and services are rising and that there is a lower net income as taxes increase. [More…]
They cannot now be expected to co-operate unless those who are elected to govern are brave enough to make it clear without equivocation that as a nation we can only solve our problems through co-operation and restraint- restraint at all levels of the economy and co-operation among all sections of the community. [More…]
One of the problems about politics in Australia today is that we have these overt threats now coming from the Opposition to a properly elected government that at any time in the term of a government the Opposition will force it to an election. [More…]
The editorial is referring to the prospect of a double dissolution or an election and the Senate power to obstruct a duly elected government. [More…]
It never forced a properly elected government to the polls prematurely. [More…]
Firstly, in May of this year, the Liberal-Country Parties refused the duly elected Government the money to carry on the operations of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
The Opposition parties will exploit this balance in the Australian electorate to force any elected government to an election at any time. [More…]
It will be only a subjective political judgment based upon political expediency as to when he can force the properly elected Government to the polls. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, can you tell me, or can anyone on the Government side tell me, the difference between the Senate, a democratically elected body of people, rejecting something and the Caucus rejecting Cabinet decisions? [More…]
The Opposition is determined to obstruct the legislation presented to the Parliament by a Government which was elected to office only 4 months ago. [More…]
The people of Australia elected the Australian Labor Party to office in 1972 because of its promises. [More…]
They reelected the same Party to office this year because of the positive action it has taken. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party was re-elected to office, even though honourable members opposite may not believe that it won the election. [More…]
That is why I have said that it was the actions of the Government that resulted in it being re-elected to office in May of this year. [More…]
A Caucus meeting is a democratic meeting of all those who have been elected both to the Senate and to the House of Representatives and each member has an equal say. [More…]
I have already indicated that $53,979,000 has been made available to other States but New South Wales has elected not to participate. [More…]
But even if one takes the Prime Minister’s argument that the proposal affects only those with incomes of more than $ 1 0,000 a year, surely governments are elected for the purpose of governing for the entire country and not for sections of the country. [More…]
What would be the position in many of the cases involving writs taken out in the past where it was proved that the person charged or the person who had brought on the charge was not a properly elected person, that the organisation named in the charge or dispute was not actually the one so named because of some deficiency in forming, reforming or uniting? [More…]
I believe that if the Queensland State AWU is in fact a living State organisation now with its properly elected officers and with its membership in accordance with its registered constitution and eligibility rule, then it follows that Bowman Building and Dunstan House and all of the property in Queensland held in the name of the AWU in that State is the property of the State union, not the property of the federal union. [More…]
But the case to which he referred first arose in the middle 1950s, not in 1968, when there was an inner faction argument in the New South Wales Branch of the Transport Workers Union as to which candidates had been elected to office, whether they had been elected to office in the branch of the Federal organisation or in the State registered union. [More…]
Yet I believe there is great collective strength and dedication among those who sit here as the elected representatives of the people. [More…]
Another matter which concerns me seriously is the campaign, which has been going on for as long as I can remember but which has moved strongly in recent months, to suggest that only certain persons elected to this Parliament have any right to any say in decisions of the Government. [More…]
The people of my electorate elected me to come to Canberra and accept responsibility for Government decisions, and I do whether I like them or not. [More…]
They are seeking to establish, under the guise of a democratic parliament, a principle whereby there is an elected dictatorship. [More…]
I do not care which side of politics is involved, I believe that members who are elected to Parliament should seek to represent their constituents in the best possible way the system enables to do so. [More…]
Out of Parliament a government is elected, and fundamentally the Parliament’s job is to scrutinise, to attack and to criticise the government, to provide an alternative. [More…]
I was elected to the Parliament in December 1972 and, like other honourable members who also were elected at that time and those who have since been elected, it did not take very long to realise that the facilities for members were totally inadequate if they were to carry our their functions properly. [More…]
I deplore the fact that the Government, which was elected on the basis- I strongly support that basis- of open government as far as possible, does not co-operate more in relation to this item. [More…]
But consider the vast entourage that he takes with him when he goes overseas; the apparently limitless chartering of aircraft; the keeping of a residence in Canberra and in Sydney which are manned all the time by servants; and the purchasing of the second largest Mercedes car that was available after he had said when he was elected to office that a Galaxy LTD would be good enough for him. [More…]
I refer briefly to the fact that the Government since it first was elected to office has set up approximately 1 10 commissions for the purpose of investigating. [More…]
It is only since Labor was elected that any attempt has been made to give practical help to local government to meet the increasing demands which are made upon it. [More…]
They were pleased to see the new relationship which had been established since the Labor Government was elected and the present Prime Minister was elected to office. [More…]
Or was he wrong to take the opportunity which that invitationthe first ever accepted by an Australian Prime Minister- presented to confer also with the re-elected Prime Minister of Canada and to talk with the new President of the United States? [More…]
As a member of this chamber who represents a disadvantaged area, an area of great need, I will fight to ensure that the principles upon which the present Government was elected to office in 1972 will continue to guide its policies. [More…]
Aboriginal representatives from various areas throughout Australia were elected to that body. [More…]
Those elected as representatives of their people to the NACC have come from various areas throughout Australia. [More…]
Thousands of them voted across the continent and they elected 41 members to that Congress. [More…]
-The Government was elected on two undertakings concerning pensions. [More…]
The sole subject of the question was the honourable gentleman’s allegation that the Foreign Minister (Senator Willesee) was taking an attitude towards Eastern European countries in order to be elected President of the United Nations General Assembly next year. [More…]
This is a deal between Immigration and Foreign Affairs, probably worked out between Senator Willesee, who is desperate to get elected to the presidency of the United Nations, and Mr Cameron who is Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Ever since the Australian Labor Party was elected in 1972 the Opposition Parties have refused to acknowledge the right of the electorate to elect a Labor government. [More…]
Any unemployment is a matter of anguish to a Labor member elected as a representative of the trade union movement. [More…]
Upon being elected in December 1972 the Labor Government honoured a promise to withdraw the excise on wine. [More…]
The recently elected majority Party in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly had as part of its policy - [More…]
I think it is in many ways desirable that we should have Australians elected to positions of influence in that organisation. [More…]
In that regard I am wondering whether Australian policy may not be prejudiced in other ways by the desire to get the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) elected to that exalted office. [More…]
I am just wondering- perhaps the Government can give me the information about thiswhether Australian policy may not be deflected in a pro-communist way for the purpose of facilitating the chances of the present Prime Minister to be elected as Secretary of the United Nations. [More…]
Circumstances have changed very greatly since then, but until my Government was elected 22 months ago no new long term arrangements for steady markets were secured for any significant primary product. [More…]
He said, without quoting figures, that it was the intention of the Opposition if it were elected to government to increase the child endowment rate substantially. [More…]
The almost unbelievable situation has occurred whereby not one member of the Australian Labor Party has been elected to the Legislative Assembly in the Northern Territory. [More…]
We seek this because we believe that we cannot fundamentally change the rights of the Australian citizenry without permitting those who are the elected representatives of those Australian citizens to deliberate adequately upon the measures which are provided in this Bill. [More…]
But I think it is worth pointing out that if a LiberalCountry Party government had been elected to office last May then meat prices no doubt would have fallen due to deliberate Government policy. [More…]
I was elected to this Parliament 5 years ago. [More…]
The Territory now has its first fully elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
I know that a very serious problem has been imposed on him by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) who made an off the top of his head statement that there would be a fully elected Legislative Assembly by the end of this year. [More…]
I am just wondering whether when these statements are made, they are made to gain political advantage or to do what we are all hoping that we can do, assist the Minister and his Department to improve the lot of people who have elected to live in a rather remote part of Australia. [More…]
The Administrator of the Northern Territory has already had talks with Goff Letts who, I understand, will be elected as the leader of the CountryLiberal Party in the Northern Territory. [More…]
-Previously, under the Northern Territory Administration Act, the elected representatives were able to deal with ordinances with powers of assent resting with the Administrator and the Governor-General. [More…]
This is the undertaking which I gave to members of the Legislative Council as it then was some months ago: As soon as the new Assembly is elected I will certainly sit down with its members and we will progressively go step by step through the problems which obviously will not be easy in the first few years of government in the Northern Territory. [More…]
It is not an easy department to administer when the responsible Minister has to spend so much time in this Parliament or in Cabinet; nevertheless, I am very fortunate in having extremely good senior officers who work in close consultation with the elected body, previously the Legislative Council and now the Legislative Assembly, and the various organisations in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I believe that everyone in this country should accept that the Australian Labor Party was 2 years ago and again a few months ago elected to power in Australia on a clear policy of not only developing Australia’s great resources of minerals and energy in a rational way but also to see that those resources were in the hands of Australians and that decisions were not being taken elsewhere in the world as so often they were in the past. [More…]
In the very short time that I have been a member of this Parliament, I have had confirmed to me the impression that I gained before I was elected a member: That is, he is a person who brings a very considerable capacity and dedication to his job. [More…]
I have been here for 20 years and I was elected before the honourable member for Moreton. [More…]
I have been here for 20 years and I was elected before the honourable member for Moreton. [More…]
That was not the policy on which this Government was elected to office in 1972. [More…]
That meeting elected 24 members of a general committee and formally adopted a constitution. [More…]
To this end it first established a criteria subcommittee, elected from its general committee, which set about establishing the guidelines to be used for funding projects. [More…]
When the Whitlam Government was elected to office in 1972 the promise of open government was given. [More…]
It is not just the message which has been coming through from the Department of Defence since the present Government was elected. [More…]
We see the influence of international imperialism within the orbit of NATO which finds great difficulties within itself in recognising the independent nonaligned policy pursued by the former President of the democratically elected government, Archbishop Makarios, who in my opinion should be reinstated in his position in Cyprus to lead that country along the path of non-alignment and non-aggression and to follow his peace-loving policies, instead of allowing Cyprus to fall into the hands of warmongering forces within the ranks of NATO so that it can be made a military base and further jeopardise the peace of the world. [More…]
-This Government was elected to office in December 1 972 and again in May 1 974 largely as a result of the Australian Labor Party’s recognition of the difficulties faced by urban populations. [More…]
This Government is deceiving the elected representatives and the administrators of local government. [More…]
When this Government was elected to office on 2 December 1972 we knew that there were urban areas that had been grossly neglected by the previous Administration over a period of 23 years. [More…]
I have been in this House for 5 years and I can remember what happened about a week after I was first elected. [More…]
What is his attitude to the committee ‘s view that policy and administrative decisions should be in the hands of elected local government representatives. [More…]
As a person who has been elected to a position of leadership in Australia and as as a member of this Parliament, he should be ashamed to overstate a serious proposition so grossly and improperly. [More…]
Honourable members opposite do not want me to remind them of the election results in the Northern Territory, where 17 Liberal and Country Party candidates were elected to a Parliament of nineteen. [More…]
No Labor members were elected. [More…]
As in those other times, the spirit of the nation is as important to ultimate success as the policies of the elected government. [More…]
Quite apart from their economic thrust the measures I have announced tonight are aimed at strengthening the spirit of national co-operation and confidence by showing Australians that they have elected a government firm and vigorous in meeting the challenges of our times. [More…]
It is therefore proposed to require an elector to mark his order of preference on the ballot paper only up to the number of candidates to be elected. [More…]
Therefore, not a single senator could be elected until about 3 weeks after polling day. [More…]
It was a she, and the only good thing about it is that she was not elected. [More…]
The present Government should realise that the State governments are also elected by people, the same people who elect the Federal Government. [More…]
It is no longer good enough to have the States come with their caps in their hands begging to the big brother in Canberra for money with which to carry out the essential programs that they are elected to carry out on behalf of their constituents- just as we have our responsibilities to our constituents. [More…]
That is not good enough in this day and age when we are dealing with responsible and democratically elected governments which have their own responsibilities in their own States. [More…]
As long as we are elected to represent the people there is no way in which there will be any change in the federal structure. [More…]
I do not support the rights of a State to obstruct and thwart programs financed by Australian Government money, bearing in mind that this Australian Government was elected to office. [More…]
He said that regardless of how long it would take to organise, there would be a fully elected Legislative Assembly in the Northern Territory before December 1974. [More…]
It called for a fully elected Legislative Assembly, yet although elections for the Assembly have been held, the Government is determined to put these Bills through this House and not consider the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
From the day the Australian Labor Party was elected to office we saw a new style of government in this country. [More…]
The honourable member will appreciate that one of the functions of the Norfolk Island Council as the elected representatives of the people of Norfolk Island is to advise on the peace, order and good government of Norfolk Island. [More…]
I want to give honourable members a few brief facts in explanation and proof of this claim and I want to remind Queenslanders to look behind the facade, to look behind the false front of respectability, of interest and concern for Queensland people put forward by the Premier, and see what the real facts are, because if they return a National Party-led coalition government in the Queensland elections on 7 December they will in fact have elected the political front for that sinister, subversive, insidious organisation, the League of Rights. [More…]
I congratulate the Government on taking this forthright stand to honour the election promise of 1972 on which this Government was elected and which was part of its progressive platform at that time. [More…]
As I have said, we espoused that policy in 1973 and again in 1974 when the Government was re-elected. [More…]
He decided that the Lord Mayor would have to be elected by the people of one particular ward rather than the citizens of Brisbane as a whole. [More…]
When I was first elected to this House I had a lively interest in the cost that the exporter was paying for high protection. [More…]
Once again as a passing reference may I say that many of us- if not every Australian- were pleased to know that an Aborigine was elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
What could be more important to an elected government, that is a State government, than to make its own decisions on land use within its boundaries? [More…]
We are concerned because the Legislative Assembly is elected by the people and the people elected a very strong Liberal-Country Party majority. [More…]
We want to protect the rights of property owners and occupiers and to ensure that the elected representatives of the Northern Territory take part in framing legislative action which will affect the residents of Darwin obviously for generations ahead. [More…]
It was said by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitiam) that there would be an election and there would be a fully elected Legislative Assembly by the end of 1974. [More…]
The Minister for the Northern Territory has no doubt considered or is considering what executive powers this new fully elected Legislative Assembly will have, yet we find a provision like this in this Bill. [More…]
We might ask the recently elected member for Tiwi, who happens to live at Nguiu, what he thinks about it. [More…]
They will be further incensed because the matter has not been referred to their elected representatives. [More…]
The Northern Territory has a fully elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
Senate without any reference whatsoever to the Northern Territory elected representatives or to the people of the Northern Territory. [More…]
the Government’s wish to establish a fully elected Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory by 3 1 December 1 974; [More…]
In fact, I am sure that our Government would not have tried to steamroll over the responsibilities of the elected people of the Northern Territory in the manner in which this Government has attempted to do so in the last 18 months. [More…]
They are faced with the problem of how much power they, as the elected representatives of the Australian people, should give to such bodies. [More…]
It has been conceived in sin because it has been elected on a completely false pretence. [More…]
Why should not the Queensland Government, elected by the people of Queensland, be heard? [More…]
If the Labor Government tries to dominate the Queensland Government and tries to take away from a constitutionally elected State government its constitutional rights then, of course, the Federal Government cannot expect to get co-operation. [More…]
Let me remind honourable members that the 3 Bills that we are considering tonight provide an example of how well projects in Queensland can proceed, of just how effectively the important work necessary for the development of Queensland can be carried out, when the State Government is prepared to do what it is elected by the people of Queensland to do and to cooperate with the Government of this nation which has the responsibility of raising the necessary finances and providing those finances to the State governments. [More…]
I invite him to cast aside his narrow political attitudes of the past and, even at this late hour, use the example set by these 3 measures to accept the genuine opportunities that are offered to him so frequently by this Australian Government elected by the same people that he believes put him into power, even though under the electoral gerrymander system existing in Queensland they had little opportunity to do otherwise. [More…]
I again express the hope that the Queensland Government elected on 7 December will be a Labor Government. [More…]
Whatever government is elected, I hope that we get the same degree of co-operation between that Government and the Federal Government that this Federal Government has received from every other State in the Commonwealth. [More…]
When that Parliament was dissolved and the new Parliament elected the question was resubmitted, and it was remained unanswered, so it has actually been on the notice paper for more than 12 months both in the term of this Parliament and in the term of the previous Parliament. [More…]
The public meeting elected an interim committee of which I am a member and I, as well as many other people, believed that we were set to get the health centre. [More…]
There have been many cases in which the British Parliament has passed a law extending its own term of office, the most recent being the parliament which was elected in 1935 for 5 years and which was extended until 1945. [More…]
Rarely in a multiple party system does the final vote on first past the post voting bring with it a majority of votes for the party which is elected to government. [More…]
How many times, particularly in recent years, has a British government been elected with more than 40 per cent of the primary vote? [More…]
With first past the post voting and multiple parties the chance of having a government elected on the majority of votes is reduced dramatically. [More…]
Under this system we add the numbers given to the votes for each candidate and the person with the lowest number is elected because he has the highest number of first or second preferences. [More…]
Under such a system all one has to do to get elected is to pack up the ballot paper with bodgies. [More…]
I hope that he will then recant and drop that suggestion because he might convince someone that the Parliament should be elected under that system. [More…]
The essential purpose of this Bill is to ensure that the community view is expressed by the members elected to this Parliament. [More…]
In the House of Representatives election in 1969, when I was elected to this Parliament, the Liberal Party polled 42. [More…]
The situation with regard to the Senate under the proposed system would be that in all but a very small number of cases the number of votes required to be cast would cover the candidates elected. [More…]
Are the provisions designed to help the elector, or is their purpose to aid only the elected? [More…]
Change designed to assist the administrators of the system and those who are or would seek to be elected under it should be made only if the change is in the interests of the electors as a whole. [More…]
It was not until 1918 that the system was changed in this country, so every government in Australia up to 1918 was undemocratically elected if a first past the post voting system is undemocratic. [More…]
One of the promises on which it was elected was a plan worked over by a previous Liberal-Country Party Government, but this Government has stolen it. [More…]
At the time this Government was elected to office we had in Australia an inflation rate of 4Vi per cent. [More…]
If we were doing what the Leader of the Country Party alleges we would be doing we would be failing in the trust to every one of those people who have supported the Australian Labor Party over decades and who have elected this Government to govern on their behalf. [More…]
In no case has the Leader of the Opposition or the Leader of the Australian Country Party, who followed him in the debate, in criticising destructively what the Government has done in the last 2 years said what he would have done in the circumstances if he had been elected to government in December 1972, had the Australian people made a serious mistake and returned him once more to government- an inconceivable situation, of course, at the time. [More…]
History has been made in the establishment of a fully elected Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
History has been made also- while we were in the Northern Territory we saw the candidates for the election- in that a full blood Aborigine has been elected to that Assembly. [More…]
It is a greater tribute than any I can pay to recall that after his first term U Thant was reappointed for a further 5 years as SecretaryGeneral, and would have received the confidence of the United Nations for a third term had he not elected to retire. [More…]
-After listening to the previous speaker, the honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh), I can state that unless one was very familiar with the situation in Queensland one could almost believe that the Government of Queensland was democratically elected. [More…]
-This is the first time I have heard an elected government being spoken of as a government imposed upon the people. [More…]
Since this Government was elected the dairying industry has been clearly in the sights of the Government with respect to repressive and discriminatory policy actions. [More…]
But he is an elected member of the other chamber. [More…]
On what basis and with what right has one elected Minister a claim to change the basis of election of others who in another area, in this instance the Wool Corporation, are elected by those who own the clip and who produce the clip to represent them within that Corporation? [More…]
Nothing that has happened since we were elected to government has caused me to change my view about them. [More…]
To the Services civilian control means control by the elected government in [More…]
I believe that the present State governments, particularly those in the 4 non-Labor States, are guilty of a conspiracy against the Australian Government in an attempt to strangle any efforts it is making to carry out the policies upon which it was elected. [More…]
Sitting up in the back of the chamber is an honourable member who was elected on 26 per cent of the primary vote. [More…]
He said we are in a fortunate position because the price of our oil is much lower than in any other part of the wo but he conveniently overlooked the fact thai if the Liberal and Country Parties had been elected at the last elections the Leader of the Country Party would have screwed the Leader of the Liberal Party- to use that coarse Americanism which the honourable gentleman seemed to gain such delight from repeating a moment ago; and I could not think of anything worse than witnessing that kind of performance- until he agreed to an increase of $4 a barrel for crude oil produced in the Bass Strait. [More…]
Whereas the Opposition’s policy when it was in government was deliberately designed to induce unemployment and had nothing whatever to do with an economic downturn in the economies of our trading partners, the present Government’s monetary and fiscal policies are deliberately aimed at reducing unemployment, even against the influences of the cyclical economic downturn throughout the western world caused mainly by the increase in the price of crude oil, an increase which the Country Party proposes to inflict upon this country if ever it is elected to Government. [More…]
It seems that daily the device of raising a matter of public importance is used by the Opposition to delay the business of the House and to frustrate the will of this freely and democratically elected Government. [More…]
When the Government was elected within a matter of days the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) said: ‘One of our first actions will be to move the Papua-Queensland border’. [More…]
I urge the Government to pay serious attention to what it may regard as something about which it was worth while producing flowery rhetoric when it was elected to office. [More…]
The Minister says that discussions have been occuring since this Government was elected to office. [More…]
Medical members of the association shall be elected by the Council or by a committee appointed by the Council with power in that behalf. [More…]
A person has to be a medical practitioner, a contributor to the Fund and then be selected by the present council of the Fund to become a medical member. [More…]
This is not surprising since the people who are elected decide who will vote for them. [More…]
I ask him to consider the views of the newly elected members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
Recommend defer or withdraw Bill until (a) Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Northern Territory tables report, (b) Government considers executive role newly elected Assembly after studying above report, (c) Ministers for the Northern Territory and the Environment have discussions with Assembly representatives, (d) Northern Territory public properly consulted. [More…]
1 have to inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon Mr B. F. Kilgariff M.L.A., newly elected Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory. [More…]
It is absolutely unthinkable that two or three Bills relating to the Northern Territory which have been introduced into this House since the election of the Assembly- an assembly which was promised by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to be a fully elected assembly before 3 1 December this year- have not been referred to the Assembly. [More…]
I believe that that role should not be dependent upon the political affiliations of the people appointed to the Corporation but upon their capabilities as individuals and as representatives of the industry, whether it be in the role of a specialist or of an elected member. [More…]
As I said on another occasion, he is an elected representative. [More…]
We accept, even though we do not approve, the fact that he is an elected member of the Senate. [More…]
Why should he not accept another body which is elected from the wool growers of this country to represent them? [More…]
The Conference also dealt with other procedural and organisational matters affecting the management of the Association and I am happy to report that our nominee, Mr R. H. Sherry, M.P., was sponsored by the Western Samoan branch and elected unanimously as the Australasian Regional Councillor on the General Council. [More…]
However, I am raising the question of the capacity of the gentlemen elected to the Cabinet. [More…]
Once they are elected that is it; the Prime Minister is stuck with them, as all honourable members know. [More…]
In April this year, for the first time in the history of Australia’s national Parliament, the Opposition in the Senate refused Supply to the elected Government. [More…]
Senators elected Vh years and 6lA years before the Government in the House of Representatives, senators who had already blocked essential parts of our legislative program, forced us to the polls halfway through our term. [More…]
They gave us clear instructions to carry on with the job- the job they had elected us to do. [More…]
They have declared war on the parliamentary system, on the ability of duly elected governments to govern effectively and carry through their program with the faith and confidence of the people. [More…]
I emphasise that in everything we do, in all our plans and decisions, we shall proceed on the assumption that the Government will serve its full elected term. [More…]
That is the basis on which we were elected and that is the basis on which we shall proceed. [More…]
I, do swear that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign Lady the Queen as a member of the Appeal Board constituted under the Public Service Act 1922-19 , for the purpose of the appeal made by (here insert the name of appellant) (or in the case of the Chairman or elected representative of the Division to which the appellant belongs as a member of any Appeal Board constituted under the Public Service Act 1922-19 , of which I may be a member) and that I will perform the duties and exercise the powers imposed or conferred upon me as such member without fear or favour affection or ill-will. [More…]
I, do solemnly and sincerely affirm and declare that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign Lady the Queen as a member of the Appeal Board constituted under the Public Service Act 1922-19 , for the purpose of the appeal made by (here insert name of appellant ) (or in the case of the Chairman or elected representative of the Division to which the appellant belongs as a member of any Appeal Board constituted under the Public Service Act 1922-19 , of which I may be a member) and that I will perform the duties and exercise the powers imposed or conferred upon me as such member without fear or favour affection or ill-will. [More…]
The Chairman of the committee is an elected member of the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
Did he make a speech in Forrest Place, Perth, in November 1972, during which he undertook, if elected in the then forthcoming elections, to have the Governmentowned Padbury Buildings demolished so that the Forrest Place area could be enhanced and made a central open city area for Perth. [More…]
This is the Government which said that it was elected to office by the working people of Australia to make right the situation of the working man. [More…]
The Senate is a fully constituted House elected by the Australian people. [More…]
When the Australian people elected the full Senate- not half of the Senate but the full Senate- in May last year they made a decision that a brake had to be put on the excesses of this Government. [More…]
Let us have a look at what has happened since December 1972 when the Labor Party was elected to office. [More…]
The members of the Legislative Assembly were elected last year and they are very keen people. [More…]
But in the intervening period between 1970 and when this Government was elected in 1972, the honourable member for Barker and the Government of that period suddenly became exceedingly and, indeed, excessively amenable to the point of view of the private health insurance funds. [More…]
One ofthe specific platforms of policy on which this Government was elected to power- and reelected is that we would expand the activities of the Australian Industry Development Corporation to enable it to do its job more effectively. [More…]
On my return to Europe I visited Greece, where I had talks on 3 January with the recently elected Prime Minister, Mr Karamanlis. [More…]
They may not be elected by members of the people or to any parliament. [More…]
Union officials would not willingly allow themselves to be caught in a position which revealed a lack of rapport with the members they were elected to represent. [More…]
I think we are looking at this as a comparatively new thing because until the Senate was elected by proportional representation this matter was not of any great significance. [More…]
This type of legislation is common to any democracy and I believe it should be retained so that the town planning program can be developed by the elected representatives of the people of the Territory. [More…]
However, the wilful misuse of paragraph (b) could mean that the democratic elected rights of the people of the Northern Territory, in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, could see themselves without any responsibility to make laws for the order and good government of the Territory. [More…]
This is the Minister who denied assistance to one of the young newly elected members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly who went to Adelaide to try to help the establishment of the rescue operations and to try to follow the refugees down the track, helping where he could. [More…]
This legislation has been drawn up, I understand, without any consultation or co-operation between the Federal Government and the newly elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
My understanding is that the elected members of the new Legislative Assembly have not been consulted about the legislation which will govern their lives for 5 years. [More…]
There must be a greater effort to have consultation not only with the citizens in general, but also particularly with the members of the newly-elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
That we will not propose amendments is in absolute accord with our attitude to this matter which is that the people who are involved, the people who have been stricken, should have the opportunity, through their elected representatives, of putting their point of view in relation to this Bill. [More…]
The members of the Assembly were elected months ago. [More…]
Open government was a pious expression which went out the window the day after this Government was elected and there are thousands of examples to prove it. [More…]
The people who sent these telegrams want to know just how much say their elected bodies will have. [More…]
As I pointed out earlier, one member of the Commission will be nominated by the Legislative Assembly and another by the Corporation of the City of Darwinboth elected bodies. [More…]
It is not so long ago that a majority of the members of the Australian Labor Party had to convince important sections of the Austraiian community, including tens of thousands who took part in Vietnam moratorium demonstrations, including hundreds of thousands who supported what were called ‘political strikes’, that despite 23 years of Liberal-Country Party rule they had not been disfranchised; that it was still possible for Labor Party governments to be elected; that when Labor Party governments were elected they would be given the same opportunities as the Liberal Party governments which preceded them; that they would have the same opportunities to put their policies into effect; that they would have the same protection from the conventions as the governments that preceded them. [More…]
But in this matter we are concerned not only about convention; I think we as parliamentarians, and any person elected to a parliament, must also realise that in parliaments there must be a large element of magnanimity. [More…]
If one takes the broad view of Australia’s political situation at present it must be stated that the failure of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) to give any leadership to the Opposition parties, the failure of the Leader of the Opposition to state whether or not he intends torpedoeing the elected Government of this country by denying supply are major destabilising factors in Austraiian politics at present. [More…]
This requirement is not something which does not exist anywhere else; it is a provision in almost every democratically elected Parliament with which we would like to compare ourselves. [More…]
When I was elected in 1972 that number had crept to 69 000. [More…]
Until we change this system members of this Parliament can be elected to Parliament and break that law by receiving funds donated from God knows where. [More…]
We can give all people the opportunity to be elected, knowing full well that their expenditures, incomes and other related matters will be known. [More…]
The management of a stock exchange in Australia is in the hands of a committee elected from its members. [More…]
The majority of people reading the proposal upon which they were asked to vote would look at it and say: ‘ Well, there is very considerable merit in this, having both of the Houses of Parliament elected at the same time’, little realising, of course, that the proposal to be put into the Constitution related to almost a hideously confused set of provisions. [More…]
The only alteration proposed to be made by this Bill as regards casual vacancies is to bring the terms of the section of the Constitution relating to persons appointed to fill casual vacancies into line with the terms of office of senators who would be elected under the other provisions of the Constitution proposed to be altered by this Bill. [More…]
I would have thought that even in such a light-hearted and obviously less than convincing opposition to the Bill the honourable gentleman would not have expected the Government to exclude from the Bill provisions under which senators filling casual vacancies would be elected to serve the same periods set down for those persons whom they were replacing. [More…]
Surely it is a reasonable proposition that the 2 Houses of the Parliament of Australia should be elected at the same time when the issues before the people are over who should govern the country and of questioning the administration, whoever it may be. [More…]
That is all right if the Senate accepts its role as a House of review and if the Senate accepts that governments elected at the time when government is on the line are entitled to govern. [More…]
They have now clearly established that they do not believe that the tenure of office of governments elected to govern has any relevance whatsoever where it interferes with the personal ambitions of men whose greed for power would destroy the whole parliamentary system if necessary. [More…]
The Victorian Parliament, controlled by members of the Liberal Party, has since 196 1 consistently passed special legislation in order to circumvent the Constitution of that State, which requires that the Upper House should be elected at a different time to the lower House, in order that conjoint elections can take place. [More…]
Both Houses of the Victorian Parliament are now always elected on the same day by resolution of Houses of Parliament in which the Liberal Party has an absolute majority, but in this Parliament for some short term temporary political gain the Opposition wishes to preserve ad infinitum a situation in which one House at a time can be elected and elections are held for part of the Federal Parliament in 2 years out of every 3 years. [More…]
I would suggest to members of the Opposition that they would be far better spending their time in trying to maintain the Senate as an elected House of the Parliament whose members represent the wishes of the people of the various States who elect them. [More…]
The members of the House of Representatives and of the Senate were elected on the one day, and certainly I do not think that the Prime Minister of this country got any advantage out of that situation. [More…]
As I have already said, because of the proportional representation method that is used to elect senators in this country- and my colleague the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) has already pointed out that there are only ever 6 senators elected in a half senate election situation, the other 24 being in effect appointed by their various political parties- the Senate for ever more will be evenly balanced. [More…]
It is a House which is elected by universal franchise; it is a House which has a built in equality of State representation; and it is a House which, by reason of developments in recent years, is adopting for itself a role quite separate and distinct from the role of upper houses of the various States that make up the Australian Federation. [More…]
I think on balance that it does considerable violence to the role of the Australian Senate, as it has now evolved, to remove from the Constitution the built in proviso that except in the case of a double dissolution, a person elected to the Senate shall serve a period of not less than 6 years. [More…]
By what rule of common sense do we approve of a situation in which these elections are held at different times and people elect a House of Representatives- the House that they think is the Government- and then have that Government’s will thwarted and frustrated by the members of a chamber which is elected at different times from members of the House of Representatives and half of whose members are elected at a different time from the other half of its members. [More…]
Because of the relationship between the House of Representatives and the Senate which they applaud and which leads to the situation that exists in this country today, the properly democratically elected Government cannot at any time govern for more than 6 months with any assurance of continuity. [More…]
If the legal process is to retain the confidence of the nation, the extent to which the High Court exercises its undoubted power not to adhere to a previous decision to its own must be consonant with the consensus of opinion of the public, of the elected legislature and of the judiciary as to the proper balance between the respective roles of the legislature and of the judiciary as law makers. [More…]
It may be influenced by the federal or unitary nature of the constitution and whether it is written or unwritten, by the legislative procedure in Parliament, by the ease with which parliamentary time can be found to effect amendments in the law which concern only a small minority of citizens, by the extent to which Parliament has been in the habit of intervening to reverse judicial decisions by legislation; but most of all by the underlying political philosophy of the particular nation as to the appropriate limits of the lawmaking function of a non-elected judiciary. [More…]
The important aspect about this provision is that, by the Constitution of Australia, the will of the people, if we wish to put it in those terms, is expressed in this vacuum of a casual vacancy by the Houses of the Parliament of the State constituted by the individuals elected to those Houses by the constitutional processes of that State, and those Houses of the Parliament then have entrusted to them in aU the acts that they perform the expression of the Will of the people. [More…]
The Court is less representative of the Australian people than are their elected parliamentary representatives. [More…]
When my Government was elected, it was elected among other things on the undertaking to proceed with this legislation. [More…]
In 1972, before my Government was elected, two of the State governments asked the British Government to recommend to the Queen of Britain that this question be referred to the British Privy Council. [More…]
On that basis, the Australian people elected a Labor Government in the last two of those 3 elections and the Bill dealing with Medibank was enacted following its passage at the Joint Sitting of the 2 Houses of this Parliament. [More…]
It is difficult to know why all the members of the Opposition are so keen to do everything possible to try to destroy and to sabotage the actions of a democratically elected government. [More…]
Everybody knows what happened in Chile and the crucial role played by the organised medical profession in that country to bring down the democratically elected government. [More…]
At ali times it is on the heads of the members, guided by the duly elected and properly elected leaders, as to whether or not they should agree to a course of action. [More…]
It sets up the Party under the control of a Conference which meets bienially, as one met recently at Terrigal, but between those biennial meetings the control lies in the hands of a Federal Executive, which is’ not elected from this House. [More…]
How the members are elected varies from State to State, but let me make it clear that in their election a great deal of communist influence is involved. [More…]
It should not be destroyed by honourable members who are elected to it being mere slanderers and acting like persons one might see on a vaudeville show telling jokes. [More…]
The Government has been elected on this measure and re-elected on this measure. [More…]
There has been no statement made or no indication given to the rural community that one of those significant parts of the Labor Government’s policy on which it was elected will ever be implemented. [More…]
In these terms, the Opposition strongly advocates that the board chairmen should be elected from and by board members. [More…]
We believe that the legislation, board autonomy and the free flow of information among members would be greatly enhanced by ensuring that the chairmen are elected. [More…]
On the boards, the artists must be represented- they must not’ have their decisions given to them cut and dried by people selected from above. [More…]
Elected, they will have to be responsive to the desires and decisions of their constituents and they should have no more right of access to information, no more right to initiate or promulgate policy, than any other board member. [More…]
Elected, they would have to be more responsive to the desires and decisions of their constituents. [More…]
The Council would consist then of the 7 elected Board chairmen and the Chairman of the Council. [More…]
We want an organisation that has a strong co-ordinating role, an organisation that is free to develop an overall arts policy, an organisation that represents the interests of artists via the democratically elected chairmen and, at the same time, an organisation that has the administrative ability to handle properly its dealings with the boards and negotiate with the States. [More…]
In my view it would be a very great mistake to adopt the suggestion that everyone on the boards and the chairmen of those boards ought to be elected by actors, dancers, producers or directors. [More…]
There also is a close relationship between this question and the degree of independence which these committees must be given under their democratically elected chairmen because, as with any large organisation of this nature, we are running a real risk of the octopus syndrome- the heart hes in the middle, the tentacles go out in all directions to the various areas of the arts, but ultimately they are all directed back towards the centre and the administrative section of the centre grows and grows in accordance with the best Parkinsonian principles. [More…]
I believe that once it was thought that the way to give people encouragement and flexibility in the field was to set up a statutory corporation, so we have the Australian Broadcasting Commission and many different sorts of statutory corporations; but in these days when there is a need for re-emphasis upon the role of the elected representatives of the people at the various levels of government, there is a need for that area of government to be underlined. [More…]
We need to stress the significance of the role of the people as expressed through elected bodies. [More…]
It occurs to me that the Minister who interjected, as well as those sitting at the table- the Minister for the Northern Territory and the Minister for Urban and Regional Development- have no interest in the people of the Northern Territory simply because those people elected a government of a different colour. [More…]
Honourable members opposite seek to give powers to a corporation that is not elected by the people. [More…]
The Minister of the day is elected by the people and is answerable to the people. [More…]
If the Opposition gives extended powers to the Darwin Reconstruction Commission, which is not an elected body, it is being anti-democratic. [More…]
Do honourable members opposite say that those non-elected bodies should not have some ministerial direction? [More…]
All we are asking the Parliament to do is to give authority to the elected representative of the people of Australia. [More…]
I intercede very briefly to say first of all that this particular clause, in respect of which we have just had advocacy from that great champion of democracy, is the one that gives complete autocratic authority to a man who is elected by the Parliament of the Commonwealth- not by the people of the Northern Territory. [More…]
It is a quite different consideration to look at the politics of a body created in order to assist the people of a Territory which is growing towards statehood and which has an elected Legislative Assembly, as my colleague the honourable member for Boothby (Mr McLeay) has said. [More…]
It is a pity that the newly elected Legislative Assembly has not been granted more authority. [More…]
If he were to be elected, we would have the advantage of the inside knowledge of one of the great insider traders of our time. [More…]
This Government was elected on a policy propounded by the Prime Minister on behalf of the Labor Party that all pensions would be adjusted over a period of one Parliament, which is 3 years, until they reached 25 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
-Now that the Opposition has had its horse laugh the rest is this: If we had a little co-operation from the Opposition in terms of the application of our policy on which we were elected as a government, I might be able to spare staff for such a purpose. [More…]
The task then is to make the Commission responsible to the public interest through the elected body, which is the Parliament. [More…]
At the moment the power to say whether the trading on a security should stop or should not stop is given to a group of often anonymous people who are not elected by the public in the same way as we are elected as politicians. [More…]
They are elected and they have public opinion behind them all the time. [More…]
At least he is an elected officer. [More…]
But it was that not long ago, apart from the mining scandals in this country, when selected applications through the Commission would have been appropriate. [More…]
This will transfer the exercising of that power to properly elected governments. [More…]
Instead they, who are presently in Government, are prepared to see the destruction of Parliament and of the system whence government itself is elected. [More…]
This evening I have great pleasure in seconding the motion that he be elected to the position of Speaker of this House. [More…]
The honourable member for Angas was first elected to this House in 1964, having previously served 5 years in the Parliament of South Australia. [More…]
He has been re-elected at successive general elections since that time. [More…]
From today’s performance it is clear that a Speaker under the present Prime Minister will need to have very great courage to stand for the principles which he is elected to uphold in this chamber. [More…]
Mr Speaker, you have been elected to an extremely important position- the most important position of this Parliament- under very unfortunate circumstances. [More…]
I congratulate you on being selected for that position. [More…]
It is for all these reasons that I suggest to the House that Mr Lucock be elected to the position of Chairman of Committees. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I believe that tonight a great responsibility has been thrust upon you, and an equally great responsibility is to be carried by the person who is elected as your deputy. [More…]
I find it incredible that the elected representative of the two largest organisations in Australia should be denied any chance to put his views to the public simply because the owner of a station licence is opposed to those views. [More…]
This is the first time I have spoken since you were elected. [More…]
-Mr Speaker, I should like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on being elected to your high office and to wish you well in your new post. [More…]
For its part, the Government will continue to try to make the system work, to make this Parliament work, to legislate through this Parliament according to the forms of this Parliament and the traditions of this Parliament, to carry out the program, for which it has been already twice elected. [More…]
They have completely and utterly rejected the authority of the Speaker, elected first following the elections in 1972, without opposition, to take charge of the proceedings of this House. [More…]
Whether or not I am preselected by the Liberal Party is not for him to say. [More…]
The question of whether, having been pre-selected, if that should occur, I shall be elected by the electors of Mackellar is again not for the Prime Minister to determine. [More…]
In point of fact, I should say that by his conduct he makes it extremely unlikely that a Labor member would ever be elected for the seat of Mackellar, and I do not think that he has any say in that regard. [More…]
They would love to administer it so that they could use money made available by this Parliament and let it go direct to local government authorities, ignoring the elected representatives in the Federal Parliament completely and letting members of State Parliaments who have had nothing to do with the raising of the revenue be the only ones to be recognised by the local government authorities. [More…]
The Advisory Council, which until September of last year was a small body consisting of persons elected by the community and nominees of departments, was replaced by a chamber of 18 members all elected on an adult franchise in September 1 974, and the new institution designated the Legislative Assembly, although it had no legislative functions, has been meeting and conducting business. [More…]
It is our recommendation that there should be a unicameral assembly to be called the Legislative Assembly consisting of 19 elected members who should be regarded as employed fulltime on their parliamentary duties and paid accordingly. [More…]
which would consist of members elected to and accountable to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
Its council comprises 12 medical members elected for a 5-year period and 12 other members appointed by the 3 State committeesQueensland, Tasmania and New South Wales. [More…]
No matter how the honourable member for Hotham may see it, the people elected this Government in 1972 on that platform. [More…]
They reelected the Government in 1974 on it. [More…]
There is no reason why anybody should be penalised because he is elevated to a high judicial office or elected to Parliament. [More…]
It is quite unfair and ridiculous to suggest that people should make a sacrifice that would affect their families or their future simply because of the old concept that people who are elected to Parliament need not be paid anything at all. [More…]
What is being done is completely contrary to the philosophy on which this Government was elected and on which it proposed to act during 1973-74. [More…]
Has the Government no shame at all when it is prepared to reverse the policies on which it was elected to govern this country? [More…]
All of the time honoured principles of the Australian Labor Party have gone by the board simply for the sake of expediency, as have the policies on which the Labor Party has said it was elected to office. [More…]
Honourable members opposite should not say that he does not know what he is talking about because they elected him Prime Minister once. [More…]
I would have thought that with their failing fortunes, members of the Opposition would want to go out into their electorates these days and let the people know what they say we have not done and why they should be elected. [More…]
We know if that happens we will be elected overwhelmingly no matter when elections are held. [More…]
In this Bill we see that the Commissioner of Commonwealth Railways is to be replaced by a 7-man commission which, I understand, apart from having representatives of the various geographical areas of Australia also will have a member elected from the trade union movement to assist in the conduct of the railway system. [More…]
I desire to inform the House that the Parliamentary Liberal Party has elected me as its Leader. [More…]
As Leader of one of the great political parties in Australia I congratulate my honourable friend on being elected the Leader of the other. [More…]
The way in which the statement was reported out of that context, in most cases, has allowed any kind of interpretation to be put on it For example, I think the honourable gentleman whom I congratulate for being elected Leader of the Opposition said that I was exultant. [More…]
He was not elected. [More…]
He was elected unopposed. [More…]
The Treasurer was pointing out that the inflationary situation was already bad at the time when this Government was first elected. [More…]
In the light of the Government’s refusal to take the issue to referendum the Queensland Aboriginal Advisory Council, as an elected body, requested and in fact pleaded with the Opposition to oppose the 2 clauses of this Bill that are in question. [More…]
It would appear that the Government is not recognising the voice of the Advisory Council, a body which was elected by the Aboriginal people in Queensland. [More…]
These clauses take away from the elected Aboriginal councils their right to determine who shall visit their reserves. [More…]
It does not matter a damn whether the Minister thinks the elected councils are appropriate bodies or not to make the determination as to who shall visit their communities. [More…]
In this proposal it has ignored the lack of support it has had from the Aboriginal people, the pleas by the only elected Aboriginal member of this Parliament, Senator Bonner, and the plea by the Opposition to ascertain by a poll among the Aboriginal people the wishes of the Aboriginal people before this arbitrary action is taken. [More…]
In spite of the pleas by the elected Aboriginal councils the Government continued to proceed with these provisions- provisions taking away their authority as to who shall enter their reserves. [More…]
Before it was amended the Bill removed the authority from the elected Aboriginal advisory councils to determine who shall enter their reserves. [More…]
I would like to make the point that the legislation that we put forward now is not merely an initiative of the Labor Government which was elected on 2 December 1 972. [More…]
The councils were elected by the people … [More…]
They are embodied in these amendments - deleted from this Bill to allow the responsibility of the communities to lie in the hands of the duly elected Aboriginal councils. [More…]
Surely there are people on the Government benches who can see the wisdom, in accordance with their own policy and philosophy, in leaving the power to decide who shall enter the reserves in Queensland to the elected Aboriginal councils. [More…]
When elected in 1972 I sought an electoral office in the most populous part of my electorate, at Campbelltown. [More…]
Members of the Liberal Party have elected a person who they say will lead them to victory. [More…]
That principle hardly applies to the honourable member who has been elected Leader. [More…]
These are the words from the person who, since Mr Snedden was elected Leader of the Liberal Party in 1973, has not let up for one instant in trying to take over the role of Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
Then there was Snedden who was elected by your Party to be your leader. [More…]
The Government is interested to note the process by which the shadow Ministers are elected. [More…]
is not less than one-quarter of the whole number of Senators to be elected for that State; [More…]
When a man is elected by the electorate and he comes to this place, he sits with a party. [More…]
But without wishing to drag down the tone of this debate, the fact is that that is the right of an elected member of this House. [More…]
The one great characteristic of the Australian voting system, which has been denigrated, rubbished and criticised, is that it is the only voting system in the world which is designed to guarantee that nobody is elected unless he gets 50 per cent plus one of the votes. [More…]
This proposed amendment has in it the ingredients to destroy the proposition that nobody can be elected in Australia unless they receive 50 per cent of the votes plus one vote. [More…]
The Government is seeking to provide by this legislation that a person can be elected with less than 50 per cent of the votes. [More…]
After all, the present Labor Government was elected at the last election on 49 per cent of the votes. [More…]
I remind the House and the Australian people that both sides have been elected under the existing electoral law. [More…]
One could instance such examples time and time again in relation to Senate elections when ballot papers are marked and the clear intention of electors so far as the number of people to be elected is concerned has been expressed. [More…]
The proposals which the present Opposition made in March 1971 and which this Government made last November included provisions for improving voting facilities for patients and inmates of hospitals, convalescent homes and institutions, franchise rights for representatives of a government or public authority who are posted overseas, and the prohibition of members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly being elected to the Australian Parliament while still members of that Assembly. [More…]
The Government has indicated that at the last Senate election the quota was not known until more than 2 weeks after polling day and therefore senators could not be elected until 3 weeks after polling day. [More…]
We now have the position that we in this House are elected on a system in relation to positions on the ballot paper which is different from that covering those who sit in the other place. [More…]
After all, the Government was elected twice in recent years under the present system. [More…]
Both sides of the House have been elected under the present system. [More…]
You must indicate the order of your preference for at least [here to be printed number of candidates to be elected] candidates. [More…]
This means that you must use all the numbers [here to be printed 1,2, and so on up to the number of candidates to be elected] but may use additional consecutive numbers. [More…]
You must indicate the order of your preference for at least [here to be printed number of candidates to be elected] candidates. [More…]
This means that you must use all the numbers [here to be printed 1, 2, and so on up to the number of candidates to be elected] but may use additional consecutive numbers. [More…]
This necessary action was not taken until the Labor Government was elected. [More…]
I have heard suggestions from time to time that those members- I have been among themwho have occupied government flats in Canberra might be disqualified under the Constitution from holding their seats or being elected. [More…]
Might I also extend to him my sympathy because of his imminent defeat, no doubt, because at the last election he was elected with 26 per cent of the primary vote. [More…]
These are residents whom the honourable member for Franklin has been elected to represent in this House. [More…]
So we know now that everybody who has benefited from the Government’s programs, which have entailed increased Government expenditure, will be made to suffer when a Liberal-Country Party Government is elected. [More…]
Let him deny that it is his intention when his Party is elected to government to reintroduce the payola to the category A schools which represent the class for which he stands. [More…]
They know perfectly well that they are committed to a policy, if they are elected, that will guarantee an increase in the price of crude oil, that will put up the price of petrol to $ 1 a gallon for every motorist, whether he be rich, poor, or middle class. [More…]
He never defines the term ‘special circumstances’, but obviously the special circumstances will be the circumstances which create a state of temporary unpopularity which will make it profitable for the Opposition once again to misuse its power in the Senate to refuse the elected Government the money needed to govern. [More…]
To do so would be to turn its back on the reason why it was elected. [More…]
The Government is elected by those people because for 23 years honourable members opposite ignored their plight. [More…]
The Government cannot be re-elected by looking back into the past- into the 1870s- which is what the Opposition is doing. [More…]
If the Government went back on promises that it has made and with which it has raised hopes in this country there would be no chance of it being reelected. [More…]
We will be re-elected time and again because we will fulfil the hopes that we have raised since December 1972. [More…]
Government’s programs are having a very positive effect and in which real progress is being made in terms of some of the objectives which in 1972 the Government was elected to carry out. [More…]
He is a Cambodian lawyer who was elected to Parliament in about 1965 or 1966. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government is shortcircuiting the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly whose members the people of the Territory voted for and elected in October of last year. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) said that there would be a fully elected Legislative Assembly by the end of December. [More…]
But up to date- we are almost a quarter of the way through this yearthe members of the Assembly who have been elected by the people of the Northern Territory have not really been given any authority or any executive power. [More…]
The Prime Minister and the Government said that we would have a fully elected Assembly by December 1974. [More…]
-This legislation has about it the elements of one of the most historic pieces of legislation that the Government has introduced since it was elected in December 1972- not historic, I believe, in the sense that it will go down on the statute books of this Parliament as having made a massive contribution to the resolution of interstate difficulties and difficulties between the States and the Commonwealth Government, but historic in the sense that never before in the period that the Government has been in office has an attempt been made to establish a body with such tremendous power under the cloak of such benign justification. [More…]
I suggest to members of the Opposition that they should have second thoughts about their attitude and that they should devote every effort possible to understanding what the legislation is about and to show some progressiveness as they are suggesting to the nation they intend to do under their recently elected leader, and support this progressive legislation that has been introduced by the Minister for Transport. [More…]
In 1972 the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) came to Hobart and promised that, if elected to government, the Australian Labor Party would reintroduce the Inter-State Commission. [More…]
I do not see why the interests of those people should be overruled in the interests of one person who is seeking to be insulated from the market forces by an utterly iniquitous agreement in the 2-airline agreement that was consented to by the previous Parliament and cannot be rescinded by even the popularly elected Government. [More…]
Earlier this year the honourable member for Bruce (Mr Snedden), who was then the Leader of the Opposition, was uncommonly generous in saying that the Liberal Party, if it were elected to office, would give $100m to local government over a 3-year period. [More…]
I do not think we can allow to continue indefinitely a situation in which the pressure that is applied to councils as elected bodies to keep rates down can be offset by funds coming from sources which are other than assured and definite. [More…]
Many Labor members of local government bodies were upended and many independent candidates were elected in their place. [More…]
There will be a police council which will involve elected representatives of the people in the communities which the police serve. [More…]
That is, it has always been possible for Vietnamese to come here, as it has been for citizens or residents of any country, irrespective of some of the conditions which used to apply before the present Government was elected. [More…]
I have not missed a day from the Parliament or from my duties since this Government was elected to office in December 1972. [More…]
If more and more trade union members were aware of what their unions are doing and what their elected officials are doing, I think the performance of the unions as a whole would improve substantially. [More…]
It is a fact that the elected shop stewards usually have demonstrated a greater social awareness and a greater social conscience than have the promoted foremen and supervisors. [More…]
In these days of increased collective bargaining and conciliation it is essential that the trade union official be an extremely competent person and be able to put forward the views of his union members fully so that he can do the job for which they have elected him. [More…]
I think one of the objectives of this Bill is to increase rank and file participation; to give the man at the grass roots level the chance to further his trade union education and to give him education in a much broader field so that he is a lot more competent to carry out the job for which his members have elected him. [More…]
I think we want training whereby people are better able to perform the many varied tasks on behalf of those people who elected them to the positions. [More…]
On 19 February 1973-just 79 days after we had been elected- the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) announced the establishment of the Australian Pre-Schools Commission to investigate pre-schooling and child care centres throughout Australia. [More…]
If that is what the population wants at the price of $885m over 10 years it is their prerogative to indicate clearly through the elected government that that should be the case. [More…]
The Labor Party promised to remove this tax if elected to power in 1972. [More…]
It is very much to be regretted that this opportunity has been used by some people in senior positions in the insurance industry and elsewhere to campaign not in the legitimate interests of the insurance industry, but against the broad program of the elected Australian Government. [More…]
The people who sought the authorisation from the Minister for Minerals and Energy had acted completely in accordance with the law and had done so before there was any correspondence between me and the Premier, and in fact before the present Government had been elected. [More…]
Members of the Liberal Party should be representing the points of view of the people who elected them instead of forgetting about them in favour of the rural electorates. [More…]
That Joint Sitting, based on the votes of members of both Houses of this Parliament who were elected by the people of this country, said that a 10 per cent difference was all that was justified. [More…]
They must have elected him in the dark when they were very much - [More…]
The Church are using him as a puppet, but by putting their views ahead of the people who elected him, he has disfranchised the electors of Lang. [More…]
-In December 1972 and again in May last the Australian people elected an Australian Labor Parry Government which was, in its own words, to be a government of compassion. [More…]
Our credit ranking in Australia has gone up since my Government was elected. [More…]
I remind the honourable member for Griffith, if he is not prepared to accept it already, that some more enlightened members of the Liberal Party in Queensland, including one recently elected to the State Parliament, warned the executive of the Liberal Party recently that a swing against the State Government in the next election could see the Liberal Party being the only party to lose seats. [More…]
I have been associated with the National Country Party over very many years; and, as vice-president of the Party in Queensland and, well before I was elected to that office, as, I believe, an influential member of the organisation and as a member of this Parliament, I have never condoned an approach by our Party to contest a Liberal-held seat. [More…]
Today, country people expect frequent contact with their elected members. [More…]
I remember when I was first elected to this House that the present Minister railed against the Country Party night after night and attacked the Country Party only because he could never beat it at the elections. [More…]
Under the proposed boundaries more people than at present will never see their elected representatives. [More…]
The significance of this figure can be appreciated when it is realised that any candidate receiving just over 9 per cent of the vote in any particular State would have been elected to the Senate. [More…]
Of course, it was elected under those laws in the 1972 election and again in the 1974 election so the laws cannot be so very biased. [More…]
I rest my case on the point that the present law allowed this Government to be elected twice; so it cannot be so bad. [More…]
Parliament, therefore, could not consider it until a new Parliament had been elected. [More…]
It is true to say that for many years after the war, successive Liberal-Country Party governments were elected by the Australian people on policies to increase our population, to broaden our economic base and to develop one of the highest living standards in the world. [More…]
I was elected to Parliament in 1958 and in the early 1960s I commenced to agitate against, firstly, the Menzies Government, then the Holt Government, then the Gorton Government and then the McMahon Government, to try to get some money to restore the oldest dwelling in Australia, Elizabeth Farm cottage, built in 1793. [More…]
We have said that we agree with the change in the method of payment to 5 per cent of salary plus anything elected above that by the contributor. [More…]
We now know from reading the Mathews and Asprey reports, that unless the trends are reversed and unless a responsible government that knows what it should be doing is elected, the prospects will remain gloomy. [More…]
That is exactly what the 27 Ministers that the Labor Party has elected will be doing during the Cabinet discussions on the Budget in July. [More…]
years later, we stand here in Parliament and we have to survey the economic disaster that has befallen this nation because we have a Government which has shown itself quite conclusively to be incapable of making difficult and rational decisions at times when any government elected by the people to control and manage the economy would expect such decisions to be made. [More…]
The real reason for the motion of course is that the Labor Party knows that if it were to go to the Australian electorate in circumstances in which it were forced to contest the elections on present boundaries, very few members of the Australian electorate who elected it in May 1974 or December 1972 would again give it a licence to abuse the whole of our administrative system. [More…]
After all, the present Government was elected twice- in 1972 and 1974- under the electoral laws which it is endeavouring so assiduously to change. [More…]
I suppose he thinks that if the Government can get an electoral redistribution it will help the Labor Party and it might be elected once again. [More…]
This is the seventh article I have published in The Bulletin on Labor’s electoral proposals since the Whitlam Government was elected. [More…]
When they are elected to Parliament the first thing they do is move to the cities. [More…]
It is now just a little more than a year since I was elected to this House. [More…]
The seat I held in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was eliminated 10 months after I was elected to it. [More…]
There has been a great increase in the amount of business conducted since the Labor Government was elected. [More…]
I put to the House and to the people of Australia that a system which has resulted in both sides of our political spectrum being elected cannot be so very unfair. [More…]
The House is a chamber at present of 127 members who are elected from the States in proportion to the population within those States. [More…]
Because the Senate is elected by proportional representation those minorities already have a chance to exercise thenproper function in this Parliament. [More…]
He must hold a Senate election before 30 June next year; it will have to be held well before that date if the people elected are to be ready to take their place in the Senate on 1 July. [More…]
Government supporters forget that not only was the House of Representatives elected on 18 May but so also was the Senate. [More…]
Obviously they have not only forgotten that the Senate was elected on that date but also they have forgotten that an identical referendum to that which we are now discussing in connection with this Bill was also submitted to the Australian electorate on 18 May 1974 and was resoundingly defeated. [More…]
Prior to the 1972 election the Prime Minister indicated that the Labor Party, if returned to office, would take up the offer to take over the 2 State systems, but when the Labor Party was elected to office and the offer to take over the systems was made to the States we found that we did not get any response from the Liberal States. [More…]
The Australian Labor Government was elected in 1972 and again in 1974 to carry out a program which placed great weight on education. [More…]
I think it would be true to say that the Labor Government was elected on a program of means-tested tertiary allowances. [More…]
The controllers of these private health funds are, therefore, acting anti-democratically by trying to frustrate the program of the elected Government. [More…]
Clause 7 of that fund’s constitution provides that: medical members of the association shall be elected by the council or the committee appointed by the council to select medical members. [More…]
We have a system which has resulted in both sides of the political spectrum in this country being elected. [More…]
The great value of that system of full preference voting- I am not going to get into a discussion of voting systems and counting systems in any great detail- is that every person who casts a vote has a say in who the elected candidate is, once the 2 major contenders, the 2 most favoured candidates, are known. [More…]
I fail to comprehend how the Opposition can say that these yards ran into trouble in early 1973 because of the fault of the Government which was elected late in 1972. [More…]
Thus work on this Bill proceeded through the Parliaments elected in 1961, 1963, 1966 and 1969 under Liberal Prime Ministers Menzies, Holt, Gorton and McMahon, Liberal AttorneysGeneral Barwick, Snedden, Bowen, Hughes and Bowen again and, in one capacity or another, Solicitors-General Bailey, Mason, Ellicott and Byers. [More…]
We in the Territory are dismayed at the Labor Government’s attitude towards the elected members of the Assembly. [More…]
None of these men is actually elected to the Corporation. [More…]
I remind the House that this proposal was on my platform when I was first elected to this House in 1966. [More…]
The Joint Committee on the Northern Territory, as a result of its inquiry into constitutional reform in the Northern Territory, has recommended many functions which should be taken over by that new legislative body which was elected on 1 9 October of last year. [More…]
While pressing for the right of people in the Northern Territory to vote at referendums, I stress that the newly elected Legislative Assembly is being by-passed. [More…]
The , first event occurred on 19 October 1974 when an election for the first fully elected Legislative Assembly was held. [More…]
We want the elected representatives of this country to be able to present their views and to act in the best interests of the Australian people. [More…]
All of us who have been elected to this chamber are conscious of the inadequacies of members’ accommodation and the failures of the facilities associated with the House to meet even the reasonable needs of any person required to meet the increasing responsibilities of parliamentarians. [More…]
By the endorsement on the writ, it is certified that Kevin Eugene Newman has been elected. [More…]
He was elected to the Senate in 1967 and his term began in July of the following year. [More…]
After being elected to the Senate he represented Queensland members and senators on the Queensland Central Executive of the Party, of which he had, of course, a very long membership. [More…]
If Phil Lucock is unfortunate enough not be be elected, then I am sure that Dr Jenkins will be a good second string. [More…]
-Mr Speaker, on behalf of the Government, and I have no doubt on behalf of all honourable members, I should like to congratulate the honourable member for Scullin on being elected as Deputy Speaker. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I add my congratulations to the honourable member for Scullin on being elected Chairman of Committees and your Deputy. [More…]
I should like to say again that we are pleased with the election of the honourable member although we are disappointed that our own nominee was not elected. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Services and Property studied the recent South Australian election for the Legislative Council which, for the first time, was elected on a system of optional preferential voting? [More…]
I noticed that in South Australia 6 Australian Labor Party members were elected to the Upper House, with 3 Liberal Party members and 2 Liberal Movement members. [More…]
It would be an appropriate task for this Committee to decide as soon as possible on which departments and people could be removed from the House to ensure that the members of the Parliament have adequate facilities to carry out their elected duties until the new Parliament House is built. [More…]
I tried to deal with the opportunities that are given to an Opposition that controls the Senate to thwart, frustrate and delay the proposals that are put forward by a popularly elected government. [More…]
In fact, most of those recommendations encompass the matters that the honourable member has raised, that is, the progressive handing over of particular local functions in the Northern Territory to Executive Members of the fully elected Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory. [More…]
I know that in the history of elections in Australia independents have rarely been elected, but some have been elected. [More…]
When they are elected they usually play an important part in the proceedings of the Parliament. [More…]
I believe it is a very important principle in our parliamentary representative democracy that individuals have the right to stand and have the chance of being elected. [More…]
I repeat that independents have been elected. [More…]
Why should one candidate be so prejudiced in his efforts to be elected to this chamber by the fact that he is unable to attract to his support those who can write cheques for vast sums of money. [More…]
After all, the Treasurer is a person elected to the Parliament and is not a member of the Public Service of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I think that this nation would like to see its representative being truly its representative and, in that role, the elected head of the defence Services. [More…]
I am sure that the honourable member for Moreton and the other honourable gentlemen who sit opposite do not believe that the commander of an Australian force should be there by a convention but believe that his position should be there by a statute of this Parliament in which his powers are laid out by the elected representatives of the Australian people so that in the event of a crisis he may thoroughly command the Australian forces. [More…]
I was glad to hear the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Cadman) point out that under a democratic system any person who occupies the position of Minister for Defence has an authority from the elected representatives of the people through this Parliament. [More…]
So there is nothing unusual in the legislation which lays down that the direction of the Services is under the control of an elected representative of the Australian people who sits in this Parliament and who is a Minister of the Crown. [More…]
The RSL has acknowledged the fact that conditions of housing for returned men or for serving members are immeasurably better than they were when this Government was elected. [More…]
If the Leader of the Labor Party had proposed that sort of rubbish in 1972 he would not have been elected Prime Minister, nor should he have been. [More…]
It had no books, no clear constitution and there seems to be considerable doubt whether it had properly elected officers, or whether it really had meetings. [More…]
I think we would all agree that Mr Marshall Green worked in the interests of his own country and ours to bring about a better understanding of the position of the then newly elected Australian Government. [More…]
We are all elected for 3 years. [More…]
I have been requested by my parliamentary colleagues to bring before the notice of the House that the honourable Fred Daly, Minister for Services and Property and Leader of the House, has today served 32 years in Parliament as a member and a Minister, having been elected as a member for Martin, New South Wales, on 21 August 1943. [More…]
He was elected to the Opposition Party Executive in 1963 and served in that position continuously until 1972. [More…]
When I was elected to Parliament I was told that I was a oncer. [More…]
Surely what is notable about the conduct of this Government since it was elected in 1972 and what we see exemplified in this Budget is the maladministration, the wasting, the extravagance and the many programs which were ill planned and impractical. [More…]
In December 1972, when the previous Government was first elected, the pension for aged, widowed and invalid Australians was $20 a week or 20 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
They are very wide, very broad, and they allow full scope for persons desiring to be elected to this place or to another place. [More…]
We now see federalism as an important defensive buffer to protect citizens from exploitation, not by the capitalist system but by an elected government. [More…]
I draw the attention of the House to the tremendous damage which the Government has done to the building and construction industry since it was elected just over 3 years ago. [More…]
When we were elected in 1972 as the Government we had to take up that situation. [More…]
It is a question of the people of Australia and the people who were elected by the community- I am referring to all members of this Parliament- deciding whether extra money ought to be collected and whether that money ought to be spent on certain things. [More…]
At the last election about 5000 votes prevented his being elected to the Senate. [More…]
I well recall September 1962 when Senator Max Poulter, one of the most able people ever elected to this Parliament, passed away. [More…]
Whiteside, later Senator George Whiteside, who was elected to the Senate in his place. [More…]
May I say that I was pleased to see Neville Bonner selected. [More…]
I considered that his Party owed him an obligation as the man who had submitted himself to the people and who would have been elected next if his team had polled more votes. [More…]
The fact is, of course, that the system we propose is considerably less restrictive than that applying for Senate elections between 1919 and 1931, under which electors were required to express preferences for double the number of candidates to be elected, plus one. [More…]
2) 1975 which I introduced earlier today, whereunder electors should be compelled only to express a preference for the number of candidates to be elected, is also inherent in this Bill. [More…]
Under the optional preferential system proposed by this Bill a candidate cannot be elected unless he has received more than 50 per cent of the votes in the count at the stage he is elected. [More…]
Honourable members can imagine the position if either of the candidates using the names I just mentioned was elected to the Senate. [More…]
The purposes of this BUI are to make special long service leave provisions for those New South Wales and South Australian teachers who were employed in the Australian Capital Territory and in the Northern Territory respectively in 1973 and who elected to join the Commonwealth Teaching Service before 1 January 1974; to enable provision to be made for the employment of teachers at technical colleges in the Aus.tralian Capital Territory; to alter the name of the Service to the Australian Teaching Service; and to make other amendments to the legislation arising from the provisions of enactments which have been made since the teaching service legislation was last amended. [More…]
The Liberal Party does not really recognise who or what it has elected as its leader. [More…]
I think it is just getting now a very nasty taste of the type of character it has elected. [More…]
It was elected to office twice by the additional votes gained from the relatively well to do. [More…]
Grants are available to any non-profit organisation, properly constituted, with appropriately elected officers, adequate financial controls including audits, and a bona fide membership open to any interested person, which has as a major objective the identification, preservation, conservation, presentation or management of some component of the national estate whether in large regions, states and territories or the nation as a whole. [More…]
Here, the Inala and District Community Health Services Committee, elected from a public meeting, is encountering what can only be called obstruction from the Queensland Department of Health. [More…]
Nothing was done to ratify those conventions before my Government was elected. [More…]
In my time here the Government with the smallest majority was the Menzies Government elected in December 1961. [More…]
Although we will not oppose these Bills let honourable members be assured that when we are elected to govern we will clean up the mess, redress the injustice and get Australia back again onto a sound, sure, solid and economic foundation. [More…]
Therefore there feU upon the newly elected Government the mighty task of adjusting some of the inadequacies meted out to the Australian people during 23 years of dominating, suppressive Liberal rule. [More…]
So Labor, when elected in 1972, set about the mighty task of serving the people of Australia in a humanitarian way. [More…]
It is not for me to educate him so let him apply himself to the task for which he was elected. [More…]
I believe that the Queensland legislation is the same as the Federal legislation under which people who have nominated for public office and who have not been elected to it are allowed to go back to the Public Service positions from which they resigned in order to stand for public office. [More…]
As one of those members who came here in the group elected to the House of Representatives in 1974, it seems appropriate to look at some of the responsibilities that we have if we believe in upholding the role of Parliament and if we believe in selling ourselves and selling our system continuously to the community as being the best system that yet has been devised as a parliamentary democracy, observing the ways in which we are carrying out those duties, whether we are doing those duties successfully and whether the criticisms of parliaments and the inadequacies of our parliaments are the legitimate aim of people outside the Parliament who criticise the actions that we take. [More…]
For example, the non-government Catholic schools which pupils from the Evans electorate attend have received approximately 4.8 times more aid since Labor was elected to Government then they received in the preceding 8 years of the Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
Both sides accept the concept of a mixed economy, but this Government believes that it should be the elected representatives of the people- not big business, the multinationals and Australia’s own private bureaucracies- that should run this country. [More…]
When in Opposition Labor made loud noises about a fully elected Legislative Council. [More…]
The Northern Territory now has a fully elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
It was elected by the people on 19 October 1974. [More…]
In our system it means that elected governments should be able to plan on the basis of 3 years. [More…]
It is predicated on the same assumption that the Leader of the Opposition demands for himself- the assumption that governments must be able to plan ahead for at least the term for which they were elected. [More…]
We framed this Budget in the context of longer term planning as the second of the three annual Budgets in the term for which this Parliament and Government were elected. [More…]
In referring to these political difficulties, unprecedented in Australia, unparalleled in any comparable democracy, I retreat in no degree from our full responsibilities as the elected, the re-elected Government of Australia. [More…]
This Budget is further evidence of our determination to fulfil those responsibilities- not just the responsibilities as the elected Australian Government, but our responsibilities as a government elected on a program of reform. [More…]
That principle is that in a parliamentary democracy the elected representatives of the people govern the country and when they refuse to do so they lose their right to govern. [More…]
The first was his statement that an elected government is entitled to govern. [More…]
Do honourable members opposite suggest that some court should have the power to say to the electors of Corangamite: ‘You should not have elected Mr Street; he has been unfair and he cannot take his place in the Parliament.*? [More…]
The answer is obvious and rests on the fragmentation, instability and indecisiveness which characterise every parliament which is elected on a proportional representation basis. [More…]
I therefore come back to a third alternative, namely, the replacement of State-wide Senate constituencies by 5 constituencies within each State, each constituency with 2 senators elected at alternate polls. [More…]
The Queensland Government in particular, when it elected Mr Field, brought the convention on casual Senate vacancies to the point of destruction, and the Leader of the House (Mr Daly) has asked very properly whether the convention has not been torn up. [More…]
If we are seriously to place parliamentary democracy in the hands of elected members of Parliament we should certainly give them better accommodation, not sharing rooms two and three to a room, interrupting each other by way of telephone calls, interviews and other things, with inefficient systems of work and a lack of staff support. [More…]
The honourable member for Balaclava spoke, as did the honourable member for Ryan (Mr Drury) before him, about what happens when an honourable member reaches this chamber, but nobody spoke about what happens for an honourable member to be elected to this place. [More…]
We also know that on 2 December 1972- not yet 3 years ago, and yet the Constitution states that the House of Representatives should be elected for 3 years- the people of Australia chose a majority of members of the Australian Labor Party to govern in this House. [More…]
Let us have a look at the democratic process by which the members of these Parliaments are elected in their totality. [More…]
Electors do not have the right to vote for those who are elected to the New South Wales Upper House. [More…]
Because the membership of the Upper House in New South Wales is not elected by the people, but is appointed, we have sitting in the other chamber here a person who may be described politically as a wether or a neuter. [More…]
So long as they pursue their power hungry course those who are frustrated and who are not allowed to see their will as expressed at the ballot box run for 3 years as they believed it would in the government they elected, will make their voices heard. [More…]
This must be done, as I say, for the sake of the safety and security of this country even when it means that an election is held at a time when the party elected to power has had a shorter period in office than the term for which it was elected. [More…]
No government can govern effectively if every 6 months when Supply Bills come before the Parliament that party elected to power at the preceding election has to go to the people. [More…]
Members of the Labor Party were in a position to see that one of their members was elected on this occasion, but they have given the seat away themselves. [More…]
I remind honourable members on the Government side that all members of the Senate, with the exception of, I think, 2 people who were nominated by State governments, have been elected by the people. [More…]
We must not forget that they have been elected by the people. [More…]
There is a slight dispute from the Government benches as to whether one of the senators elected from Tasmania came in as an Independent or as an independent Liberal, but since that election he has joined the Liberal Party. [More…]
One final remark I want to make is that if this Parliament does not learn to carry out its functions or is not capable of carrying out its functions or is not capable of carrying out the functions for which it has been elected, and that includes the function of governing by a government elected by the people, other methods will be devised by people in the community who want things done. [More…]
I will not take up much of the 10 minutes I have skirting those aspects of the Constitution which the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Crean) raised except perhaps to remind him that it was the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) before the last election who was very fond of describing the then members of the Senate as yesterday’s men and men elected for a certain number of years. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition and the Opposition generally are deliberately trying to destroy the trust which should exist between the Public Service, the Parliament and the elected government; in other words, the democratic system. [More…]
It is not a matter of whether the Budget pleases the Senate; the point is that the Senate has no right at all to force any elected government to the polls, not because it does not have a majority in this Chamber, not because it lacks a majority on the floor of the House of Representatives, not because it does not have the support of the people at an election but because it does not have the money to govern. [More…]
I am cognisant of the fact that even in this House they do not have an indigenous representative on either side elected to speak for them. [More…]
This matter has arisen from the elected personnel of the Aboriginal community itself. [More…]
It was raised by a Mr Bennell who is the elected representative who covers some of the area which I cover. [More…]
Mick Ranggiari when the announcement was made that he had been elected to the National Aboriginal Consultative Council, said: ‘This is right. [More…]
For 14 years before this Government was elected a total embargo on the export of uranium was imposed by the Liberal-Country Party Government in the 14 years to 1972. [More…]
Three weeks before the new Parliament was elected in 1972 the former Minister for National Development in the Liberal-Country Party Government, Sir Reginald Swartz, let contracts to Japan to suit the companies that were obviously tipping into Liberal Party funds for that election. [More…]
The Committee will recall that in 1972 the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) campaigned vigorously on the problems of urban transport, promising some $ 1 , 100m- I think that was the figure- to upgrade urban transport if elected to government. [More…]
We were elected in 1972 for a 3 year term, but the Opposition was not satisfied. [More…]
The people elected us into office for a term of 3 years. [More…]
Every person who lives in the electorates of St George, Barton, Grayndler, KingsfordSmith and in electorates around them should realise that if Liberals were elected to both Federal and State Governments they would extend Kingsford-Smith aerodrome and cause the children in schools and the people in homes for the aged to suffer unlimited agony. [More…]
They elected Labor candidates instead because they said: ‘They will keep down the number of jets at night and will not keep the people awake’. [More…]
He now has the expressions of opinion of the people and the council- the elected representatives. [More…]
I remind him that these people elected to the State Parliament of Western Australia Liberal members because they know where prosperity lies. [More…]
The Government’s attitude in taking away tax concessions from people who ploughed in money and risked it in oU and mineral exploration was one of the earliest signs that the Australian Government, which was elected in 1972, did not have its feet on the ground. [More…]
The fact is, as will be realised by anyone looking at all the programs I have mentioned, that these are programs which were not in operation before this Government was elected. [More…]
When Labor was elected there were 93 000 people on housing commission waiting lists around Australia. [More…]
The coalition, if elected to Government, would again demonstrate that Australia was determined to be a reliable trading partner. [More…]
I doubt whether many figures in public life who are not elected representatives have attracted quite the amount of abuse and misrepresentation which has been the lot of Elizabeth Reid ever since she was first appointed to the staff of the Prime Minister- an abuse which some of us noted culminating yesterday in the remarks of the Premier of Queensland, Mr Bjelke-Petersen. [More…]
There is the hollow opportunism of the present Opposition trying to use the Senate as an instrument with which to strike down a Government, in the same way as Lang’s opponents of those days used Governor Game through the British Colonial Office to strike down his elected government. [More…]
What we urged, and I believe we succeeded, was for them to channel their energies into getting a Labor Government elected. [More…]
Within days of being elected we were able to put into effect policies that ended conscription, removed the last vestiges of involvement in Vietnam, cut many of the ties with South Africa and commenced to improve the lot of Aborigines. [More…]
The Australian people rejected this naked grab for power and an Australian Labor Party Government was re-elected with a comfortable majority in the House of Representatives and increased numbers in the Senate. [More…]
I forget the exact quote, but he said, in effect, that he believed that a government elected for a term of 3 years should serve its full term. [More…]
No opposition to it has been expressed by any elected person at all and as far as I am aware no criticism of it has been made by any writers or speakers on the subject. [More…]
Those people in the country whom I know vote for us say that they never see the elected representatives of the National Country Party in the electorate. [More…]
He got 17 per cent of the primary vote and he was elected to this Parliament under the present system. [More…]
The Government was elected twice on the present boundaries. [More…]
If Government supporters are worth their salt, they will be re-elected on those same boundaries the next time the people of Australia have an opportunity to pass judgment. [More…]
The fact is that to strike a Budget the Government elected for other options. [More…]
It elected to introduce Medibank. [More…]
I said that if they wanted to see action on the things they hatedAustralia’s involvement in Vietnam, conscription and tours of Australia by Springbok sporting teams and so on and so forth- the way to do it was to get behind the Labor movement and work and expand their energies in getting us elected. [More…]
In 1974, when the Opposition decided to try to cut short our elected term of office by half, those people were boiling with anger but once again they gave the democratic process a go. [More…]
They worked hard and they had us reelected. [More…]
Why would the unions want to use arbitration after what the Opposition would have attempted to do twice- throw the Government elected for a 3-year term out of office? [More…]
When I was first elected maybe I also talked wildly as some newly elected honourable members do. [More…]
To work their backsides off for six, nine or twelve years to get a Labor government elected? [More…]
We now face the position where members of this Parliament, particularly some in the Opposition in the Senate, who would probably have their seats declared vacant for contravention of the Act, are deciding whether or not they will throw out a democratically elected Government. [More…]
From 2 December 1972 the freely elected government of this country, elected under the same system as every other government, that is, elected to serve for 3 years, has never been free from threat from the Oppositionwhich has never been prepared to see itself as an Opposition. [More…]
Under our Westminster system governments are elected to serve for 3 years. [More…]
Again we were elected to rule for 3 years; again we had a mandate. [More…]
Again, and in line with the Constitution, we were elected to govern the country. [More…]
It is an impossible situation when a government is elected and not allowed to serve its term. [More…]
The other very big danger of this constant threat against the freely elected government is that it serves notice on the people that the present system has to be re-assessed. [More…]
If the Australian people are to sit back and allow their system of government to be capsized at the will of an Opposition wanting office regardless of the performance of the freely elected government of the day, this country is approaching a system of anarchy and this is something that the Opposition has always professed to despise. [More…]
I repeat, as I have said on numerous occasions, that I supported the Party room decision of last November and that I support the elected leader of the Liberal Party. [More…]
I generally believe that if a government is elected to power in the Lower House and has the numbers and can maintain the numbers in the Lower House it is entitled to expect that it will govern for the 3-year term unless quite extraordinary events intervene. [More…]
Any ad hoc committee that is established in this country which is not democratically elected and where the people elected to the Committee do not have to face the ballot box a danger always exists. [More…]
The impromptu sacking of a properly elected Labor government by a handful of political opportunists in the Senate was the first step in the deliberate campaign to destroy our Federal system by the Opposition. [More…]
That in view of the fact that the Government has violated the pledges of full employment, stable prices and low interest rates on which it was elected; and in view of the fact that the policy of the Government has inflicted severe unemployment and other losses on the people of Australia; and in view of the fact that there can be no relief from these unhappy conditions while the present Government remains in office, this House is of the opinion that resignation is the only honourable course left to the Prime Minister. [More…]
Returning to my comments about the cost of housing when the Opposition parties were in Government I want to refer back to 1972 when the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) made the promise in his election speeches to the people of this country that if elected to office he would reduce the cost of houses by between $2,000 and $6,000. [More…]
In 1974 there was much trumpeting about having a fully elected Assembly. [More…]
It so happens that not one Labor representative was elected and because of that I accused this Government of not producing anything even approaching the October 1972 proposals in spite of the fact that there have been 2 joint parliamentary committee reports handed to the Government-. [More…]
We now have had a fully elected Legislative Assembly as was promised, for almost 12 months ago. [More…]
The 17 members of the Assembly were elected by the will of the people, but not one Labor representative holds office. [More…]
The members of the Assembly were elected by the people but nothing has happened. [More…]
Mr Chambers was elected to this House for the seat of Adelaide in 1943. [More…]
He was elected to serve continuously in the House of Representatives at elections held in 1943, 1946, 1949, 1951, 1954 and 1955. [More…]
I met him for the first time about 9 years ago not long after I was elected to the House of Representatives. [More…]
I was honoured to know Cyril from the time I was elected to this place in May 1955.I formed a very firm friendship with Cyril for the 3 years or so he was in Parliament after that and, of course, during the time he was employed in the Commonwealth Public Service later. [More…]
His philosophy puts me in mind of what was said once about an Anglo-Saxon elected in South Africa: He talks Progressive, is a Liberal and prays to God that the Conservative policies will carry the day. [More…]
I would say that the amount of administrative work which I have now, compared with when I was first elected, is at least double, the amount of paper work has more than doubled. [More…]
The Bill refers to consultative committees which are to be elected to assist the ALAO. [More…]
I also submit that no one has raised in this Parliament since the Australian Labor Party was elected to Government the question of the Papua New Guinea-Queensland border as frequently as I have. [More…]
Accordingly, the making of legislation on this criminal code or any other matter is now primarily a matter for the elected representatives of the 2 Territories. [More…]
That is something for the elected representatives of the mainland Territories to do. [More…]
Its interest is in getting the maximum number of candidates elected whatever the system may be, particularly at the moment. [More…]
The percentages of votes it has received in Senate elections have been represented pretty closely by the percentage of senators it has had elected. [More…]
It is not getting enough senators elected. [More…]
In arriving at that quota you take into consideration the number of formal votes cast and also the number of candidates who are to be elected. [More…]
The Bill also states that a vote will be classified as formal providing the ballot paper is filled in with the total numbers in accordance with the number of senators to be elected. [More…]
In previous debates not one member of the Government has said- I hope the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Riordan), who is at the table, understands the matter and will give me an explanation- what will eventually be the quota after the first three senators or even the first 4 senators out of a team of five are elected. [More…]
5 would be elected with fewer votes than those who would be elected No. [More…]
I do not wish to say anything more about that matter other than that I hope that the Minister will be able to give me a firm assurance that senators so elected under this scheme will be elected on the same number of votes as Nos. [More…]
1, 2 and 3 could be elected on. [More…]
He may well vote for somebody who in the event receives few votes and has little hope of being elected. [More…]
So our first and primary point in advocating that Australia should retain the full preferential system is that it is a fair system which results in each elector having a say in who is to be elected. [More…]
The Government seeks to implement a system whereby fewer nonLabor candidates are elected to this place. [More…]
If one compares the percentages of votes that are cast for the Australian Labor Party with the percentages of Labor Party candidates who are elected one will find that the percentages are pretty close. [More…]
In the first place, Senators are elected State by State. [More…]
It is possible under that system for a candidate who obtains a minority of the votes- that is, 40 per cent of the total votes cast or even 35 per cent of those votes- to be elected. [More…]
In other words, 53 per cent of the people who voted in that poll did not want Garland although he is declared elected. [More…]
The Minister had interjected but he cannot gainsay the fact that if we have an optional preferential system, if we have 3 candidates, and if only half of the number of persons who voted for the third candidate express a preference, it is possible for the victorious candidate to be elected with less than 50 per cent of the primary or subsequent preference votes of the people taking part in the poll. [More…]
What this Bill would do would be to make it harder for the individual to be elected and to make things more difficult for all parties other than the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
In the case of a Senate election the number of candidates endorsed by a party is to be not less than one-quarter of the number of senators to be elected for that State. [More…]
After all, when such a person is elected it is usually for an important political reason and the consequences of such elections have been important ones in Australia’s history. [More…]
It is determined to try to perpetuate a system whereby minorities can be elected to government. [More…]
After all, we do not know until they have stood and the votes are gathered whether they are going to be elected, but I believe the Minister is trying to prejudge the matter. [More…]
It is of interest to look at the statistical evidence for the 1969 House of Representatives election as it shows up the relationship between candidates who were placed first on the ballot papers and candidates who were elected. [More…]
It shows the elected candidates in relation to their position on the ballot-papers- [More…]
were elected on 20 occasions while the candidates in second position on b/pps. [More…]
were elected on 9 occasions. [More…]
were elected on 1 13 occasions while the candidates in second position on b/pps. [More…]
were elected on 1 18 occasions while the candidates in third position on b/pps. [More…]
were elected on 99 occasions. [More…]
were elected on 40 occasions while the candidates in second position on b/pps. [More…]
were elected on 56 occasions while the candidates in third position on b/pps. [More…]
were elected on 41 occasions while the candidates in fourth position on b/pps. [More…]
were elected on 5 1 occasions. [More…]
were elected on 8 occasions while the candidates in second position on b/pps. [More…]
were elected on 14 occasions while the candidates in third position on b/pps. [More…]
were elected on 13 occasions while the candidates in fourth position on b/pps. [More…]
were elected on 1 1 occasions while the candidates in fifth position on b/pps. [More…]
were elected on 5 occasions. [More…]
was elected on 1 occasion while the candidates in second position on b/pps. [More…]
were elected on 3 occasions and a candidate in third position on b/pps. [More…]
was elected on 1 occasion while the candidates in fourth position on b/pps were elected in 2 occasions while the candidates in fifth position on b/pps. [More…]
were elected on 2 occasions while the candidates in sixth postition on b/pps. [More…]
were elected on 3 occasions. [More…]
was elected on 1 occasion while a candidate in third position on b/pps was elected on 1 occasion. [More…]
was elected. [More…]
was elected on 1 occasion while a candidate in fourth position on b/pps. [More…]
was elected on 1 occasion. [More…]
One cannot take seriously the vote of a body of which 2 members were appointed- not electedand of which another member, who was elected as an independent, chose to join a political party. [More…]
The constitutional authority of a Premier rests almost entirely upon his success at a general election, and upon his continued authority in the popularly elected House, and not upon irresponsible speculations as to whether he would have lost his majority if the Constitution had provided for annual and not triennial elections. [More…]
In no other parliamentary democracy has the elected government been subject to the artificial pressures and intolerable stress to which this Government has been subject by the unconstitutional threat of an election every 6 months. [More…]
The truth is of course that at the last Senate election the people not only recorded 200 000 more votes for the Australian Labor Party candidates- the Government- than for all other Parties represented in the Senate combined, but elected 29 Labor senators and 29 Opposition senators and 2 Independents. [More…]
If things are to be left to another House, a House elected not in constituencies by the people but by State, a House with representation on geographical lines and not on heads of population, there will be unleashed all the dangers that are now apparent. [More…]
When was he elected to the people’s House? [More…]
In my portfolio of Manufacturing Industry, the most advantageous thing for industry is confidence in there being proper government elected for a period of 3 years. [More…]
It does not want what the elected representatives of the people say but what the people in the Opposition parties say. [More…]
Are we to look at the Leader of the Opposition as being the rightful Leader of the Opposition elected by the people of Australia? [More…]
Honourable members opposite will bring anything into this Parliament to betray an elected government. [More…]
The power has always been with the elected House. [More…]
It is futile for us to go back to the people who elected us and say: ‘We are sorry. [More…]
We will say that it is about time we got a new Constitution, one in which the people count and in which elected representatives make the rules. [More…]
The man who twice disposed of his own elected leaders in his grab for power is now prepared to destroy the whole parliamentary system to satisfy his mad obsession to rule those whom he so deeply despises. [More…]
The forthcoming Senate election is more than a party political contest; it is an election which will call upon the electorate to decide whether a government elected for a constitutional term of 3 years should or should not be allowed to complete its constitutional term. [More…]
If an elected government is not to be permitted to govern for its full constitutional term, why have elections at all? [More…]
Only yesterday the Leader of the Opposition said that if elected he would need a full 3-year term to get Australia back to where it ought to be. [More…]
I call upon my friends and supporters in the trade union movement, of whom I have many hundreds of thousands, to rally behind the Prime Minister’s call, to stand up and to defend the system of government by the people, of a government entitled to govern for its full 3-year term, enshrined by the Constitution as the right of all elected governments. [More…]
The rich and the privileged Leader of the Opposition wants government by big business, not government by properly elected representatives of the people. [More…]
I challenge the Leader of the Opposition now to deny honourable members opposite need not laugh that he told colleagues that if elected to government he would abolish the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and the courts and that he would reconstitute them with people of his own choosing. [More…]
Labor was again elected in May 1974 till May 1977. [More…]
-I wish to make one or two comments about the speech which has just been delivered by my old friend, the honourable member for Wilmot (Mr Duthie), who was a member of the House of Representatives in 1949 when I was first elected to the House. [More…]
This Government has twice faced the ballot box- in 1972 when it was elected and last year. [More…]
But anyone who is elected to this chamber is regarded in the same way as any other individual. [More…]
It is a tragedy and a disgrace that the fate of a democratically elected government should depend on the whim of an individual who is controlled by vested interests including the Press barons. [More…]
One is the honourable course to follow- to retreat from his incredibly dangerous position and make a clear declaration that he will allow the democratically elected Government of Australia to get on with the business of governing free from the threat of Senate obstruction. [More…]
He should make a clear declaration- not one hedged with fine print; not one covered in ifs and buts, but a clear declaration that the Government can get on with the job it was elected to do. [More…]
The rights of democratically elected governments to govern must be established- now. [More…]
We as the elected Government of Australia- the Government solely because the people gave us a majority in this House- must now so conduct ourselves that this act of aggression by the Senate shall never again be attempted. [More…]
It is not only a matter of upholding past conventions which go to the very foundation of parliamentary democracy; it is a matter of establishing the principle beyond all doubt for the future, for all time- not just for this twenty-ninth Parliament, but for all future Australian Parliaments; not just for this elected Government, but for all future elected governments of Australia; and, may I say, not just for the present Prime Minister but for all future Prime Ministers of Australia. [More…]
The taxpayers’ control over their money through their elected representatives in the people’s House is the foundation of parliamentary democracy. [More…]
The Government- any elected government- based upon the majority in the House of Representatives, must be able to govern. [More…]
We were elected to govern for a further 3 years, until 1977, and that is the Government’s expectation and intention. [More…]
We now have the extraordinary spectacle of the Opposition, apparently recognising that it has failed to blackmail me into an election for the House of Representatives, seeking to bring reprehensible pressure to bear on the GovernorGeneral, the representative of the Queen of Australia, to achieve that very thing, and to do so by dismissing me as Prime Minister, a Prime Minister who twice in less than 3 years has been elected with a majority in the governing house and who continues to have a majority in that House. [More…]
The course of action was being prepared by senators who took office 1 Vi and 4Vi years before my Government and who were elected 2 and 5 years before my Government. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition maintains that all that is required for Australia to avoid the evil consequences of his own actions is for us- the elected Government- to cave in. [More…]
This is the first time that a democratically elected Prime Minister has sought to continue in government when the Parliament has denied him money. [More…]
This Government has been elected twice in 18 months. [More…]
It was elected in December 1972 and reelected in May 1974. [More…]
The Senate had elected to it 29 senators from the Labor Party and 29 senators from the Liberal and Country parties, with 2 independent senators. [More…]
From 2 December 1972 the freely elected government of this country, elected under the same system as every other government, that is, elected to serve for 3 years, has never been free from threat from the Opposition which has never been prepared to see itself as an Opposition. [More…]
(Quorum formed) On 18 May 1974 the Labor Party was again elected to govern and since then we have had exactly the same pattern of lawlessness emanating from the Opposition benches. [More…]
The Senate has a role to play as the House of review and it should not take unto itself the role of disrupting the work of the elected government. [More…]
The honourable member who leads those opposite was elected as a man of principle. [More…]
Twenty-nine Labor senators, 29 Opposition senators and 2 Independent senators were elected. [More…]
As Senator Steele Hall said, Opposition senators are walking with a dead man’s vote in their pockets and trying to force out a constitutionally elected government. [More…]
Nobody could ever have realised that an individual like Bjelke-Petersen would ever be elected as a premier. [More…]
Their proposition is that the Government should make it easy for them and that the Government should deny those who elected it and should now give the Opposition the opportunity, if it can, to mislead the Australian people. [More…]
This Government has been elected twice by the Australian people. [More…]
This Government was elected in May of last year and more people voted for Labor senators than for senators of all of the other parties combined. [More…]
The Liberals, by conniving, by distorting the ballot papers and by arranging for excess numbers of candidates, with no possible hope of and no interest in being elected, were able to get an increase in the informal vote thereby gaining a better position. [More…]
We then had the statement of the Leader of the Opposition that the Governor-General will have to intervene and throw out Australia’s elected government. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator Withers, constantly bleats that the Senate is a democratically elected House and that it has certain powers. [More…]
It is elected on a State basis. [More…]
The Senate is elected by the most complex and fanciest of franchises, imbued with so much mystery as to confuse the greatest enthusiast. [More…]
Everyone knows that if by a miracle- and miracles have not really been performed since the year 1 A.D.- the Government is elected again we will move from problem to problem, from disaster to disaster, from stagflation to what could easily be regarded as one of the worst disasters we have ever faced. [More…]
I might make the point that in 23 years of Liberal-Country Party government no tangible steps were taken towards responsible government or the giving of powers to the elected Assembly in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The people of the Northern Territory have obtained an elected Assembly since this Government came to power. [More…]
The Administrator’s Council is a council of elected people. [More…]
This is the House which is elected by popular constituency vote as distinct from the second chamber, which is a States’ House. [More…]
It is a House which has representation elected on a different sort of basis, where all States, regardless of size, have the same number of senators, so that in very small States a small number of voters can ensure equal representation with the very large States. [More…]
The Westminster system of government which has served this nation well since Federation just cannot endure if a de facto second government, not elected by the people as the Government, but self-appointed, seeks to operate in the Senate. [More…]
They know that the 30 members of the Liberal and National Country Parties who sit in the Senate at the present time were elected on the same occasion, at the same poll, by the same franchise and on precisely the same day as every single person who sits in this House, whether he be a Government or an Opposition supporter. [More…]
Honourable members on the Government side know quite well that the Prime Minister was in no doubt that the Senate had the power and that if he could have mustered the numbers in the Senate he would have destroyed the Budget of 1970 and the Government of 1970- a Government that had been elected in October 1 969 and was then 10 months old. [More…]
Every member of this House and every student of constitutional and legal practice know that the House of Lords is an undemocratic, hereditary body, not elected. [More…]
As I have said, the Senate is elected with equal representation in every State. [More…]
That this Government has consistently violated the promises of low interest, stable prices and full employment on which it was elected to office in May 1974; [More…]
Does the Prime Minister realise that the promise of open government was one of the main reasons why this Government was mistakenly elected to office by the Australian people- a mistake that they are anxiously waiting to rectify? [More…]
When the next Liberal-National Country Party government is elected we will make an immediate move towards the introduction of personal income tax indexation. [More…]
Another senator who was elected as an Independent has joined the Liberal Party, but the Liberal and Country Parties do not have a majority in the Senate. [More…]
The taxpayers’ control over their money through their elected representatives in the people’s House is the foundation of parliamentary democracy. [More…]
The Government, any elected government, having and maintaining a majority in the people’s House, the House of Representatives, must be able to govern. [More…]
We are asserting the right of the people of Australia against a government which has demonstrated deliberate dishonesty; a government which has demonstrated through its Prime Minister a different standard for himself from that which he expects of his ministers; a government which has demonstrated gross illegality in overseas loan raisings and total impropriety in the premature release of Budget papers to persons who are not elected representatives of the people and who are not subjected to the normal constraints applied to elected representatives of the people, be they State Premiers or Opposition representatives. [More…]
Prime Minister, saw fit to disagree with the powers that senates sought to impose on the elected government of the day. [More…]
The Treasurer (Mr Hayden) today and on television the other day acknowledged that premature release of the contents of the Budget was given to a man who is not an elected representative of the people, a man who is in a position, had he chosen, to take personal advantage of this information, and a man who is a director of 2 public companies to boot- the President of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Honourable members opposite normally speak about the Senate as being democratically elected. [More…]
In 2 half terms the Senate is democratically elected. [More…]
But I have considerable doubts as to whether or not a committee of three, all of whom as the honourable member for Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron) has pointed out are to be elected by the Government, is in any sense fair to the industry itself. [More…]
I support the elected leader of the Liberal Party. [More…]
This is the House of the Parliament which is elected by popular franchise and which is more democratically representative of the 2 Houses. [More…]
The curious election arrangements for the Senate are such that regardless of the size of a State in terms of population the same number of senators are elected for each State. [More…]
For the first time positive recognition is being given to the authority of the States in a meaningful spirit of federalism and accountability, for the spending and raising of money will rest to a marked degree with the people who are elected to fulfil the requirements of the Constitution as originally envisaged. [More…]
It is fully elected by the general franchise of the people by proportional representation, an even more accurate reflection of the electors’ will than the preferential system in the House of Representatives. [More…]
The essential principle of the money power is this: It should be wholly within the fully elected Parliament controlled by the people’s vote free from the influence of the Crown. [More…]
In addition, such an election will determine the following senators to take their places immediately after that election: Two senators to fill the casual vacancies now held temporarily by Senators Bunton and Field of New South Wales and Queensland; two senators to be elected from the Northern Territory and two from the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Those strengths will comprise the 58 preexisting senators elected at the May 1974 double dissolution, plus the 2 casual vacancies and the 4 territorials. [More…]
This Government had not been elected for more than a few months when the Opposition plotted to withdraw Supply from it and to stop its flow of money. [More…]
This Government has been elected twice in 1 8 months for 3-year periods. [More…]
But they say that the Senate should stop the supply of money to the duly elected Government and should force this party and this Government to the people. [More…]
I am not distraught as those opposite are by the High Court having held what would obviously have been the case in the minds of most honourable gentlemen, that senators may be elected from the Territories and may vote. [More…]
Actually I was in the Northern Territory over the weekend and I was impressed by the sense of outrage among people there at the National Country Party’s antics on this question of senators being elected for the Territories because they had not forgotten that Country Party and Liberal Party senators had on 4 occasions in 1973 and 1974 voted against citizens in the Northern Territory being allowed to choose senators- 4 occasions. [More…]
We went to the polls, the electorate elected a [More…]
It is too much to think that they will have something to say, that not just appointed representatives but the elected representatives of the people of the Northern Territory might have a right to voice their attitudes to these measures before they are passed into law through this House? [More…]
One of the aspects of this question is that at some time in the future, be it close or distant- it will not matter for these purposes because as I said earlier these Bills will have long term effectthe Northern Territory, although it be anathema to the Government, will probably be a State of the Commonwealth and those who are now the elected representatives in the Legislative Assembly may well be members of a State parliament but certainly their successors will be and the statehood and the effect of these provisions on the statehood of the Northern Territory are very material matters to take into consideration in this debate. [More…]
They are going to have an elected body, but in some ways the idea of one man one vote or equal vote equal value, if I may use that phrase, is absolutely foreign to the Aboriginal concept. [More…]
In actual fact members of his own Party are the experts in endeavouring in such a despicable way to ensure that their candidates are elected. [More…]
declares that the Constitution and the conventions of the Constitution vest in the House of Representatives the control of the supply of moneys to the elected Government and that the action of the Senate constitutes a gross violation of the roles of the respective Houses of the Parliament in relation to the appropriation of moneys; [More…]
Until yesterday the most claimed by the Leader of the Opposition- whose appearance I welcome- was that half the Senate could indefinitely delay the elected Government’s Budget to produce such chaos as to force the dissolution of the House of Representatives. [More…]
The question is not just whether this particular Government will be allowed to govern for the term for which it was elected; the question is whether any duly elected government will be allowed to govern in the future if in its own right it does not also command a majority in the Senate. [More…]
Senate may hold up an Appropriation Bill until the duly elected Government formed in this House capitulates to the Senate’s demand for a general election of members of this House. [More…]
It refers to the Senate, but at the last Senate election which was held at the same time as this House was elected the people of Australia, the same electors who elected members of this House, gave the Opposition Parties control of the Senate. [More…]
In each case the senators elected on those dates took office on the following 1 July. [More…]
He gave the view in a telegram to Senator Laucke, who filled a casual vacancy caused by the death of a senator who had been elected under the same banner as he himself has always carriedthat is, Laucke succeeded Hannaford; each at the time of his appointment was a member of the Liberal Party- that the Budget should be passed on economic grounds. [More…]
Supply to a duly elected Government in the Australian Parliament. [More…]
A government has a right to continue to govern according to law for the period for which it was elected to govern. [More…]
It gave us an excellent opportunity to observe the customs of the people and to discuss the problems that are facing the elected representatives and the administrators in these countries at all levels of government. [More…]
It is therefore not provided that members should be elected. [More…]
It would be wrong to propose that they should be elected as a form of selection. [More…]
It is worth noting that even if there were no States in Australia, even if the Prime Minister had his wish in relation to that, we would still need a Senate elected as the Senate is elected with the powers that the Senate has, to protect those areas and those regions which have fewer people in them than Melbourne and Sydney. [More…]
right of the elected Government of Australia to govern is under challenge. [More…]
The new preposterous claim is that the Senate- not even an elected majority but a mere accidental half of the Senate- can dictate to the House of Representatives our own dissolution. [More…]
Only 19 months ago, the people for the second time in less than 18 months elected the Australian Labor Party to govern for a further 3 years. [More…]
I also am very pleased in a personal sense to second the motion that the right honourable Bill Snedden be elected to the office of Speaker of this House, a motion so capably moved by the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp). [More…]
Like the honourable member for Hotham, I regard Mr Snedden as a personal friend but this will not influence him at all in any treatment that he might give when he is elected Speaker. [More…]
Mr Speaker, on behalf of the members of the National Country Party I extend sincere congratulations to you on being elected to the very high position of Speaker of this House. [More…]
I should like to commend the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes), who has experienced disappointment today in not being elected as Speaker, for the service he gave in the previous Parliament. [More…]
The honourable member has had a distinguished parliamentary career, having been elected as honourable member for Lyne in a by-election on 22 March 1952. [More…]
He has been re-elected on all subsequent occasions. [More…]
I am satisfied that he will be elected to this important position today. [More…]
On behalf of his colleagues and on my own behalf I would like to congratulate the honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock) on being elected to the position of [More…]
I should say that he has been re-elected to those positions which he has held with great distinction for many years. [More…]
The second is that I believe we face a responsibility in view of the number of members who have been elected on the government side to see that members of this Parliament accept their responsibility as representatives of the electorate. [More…]
You may rest assured that during the term of office for which it has been my privilege to be elected you will have my wholehearted support in every action that enhances the prestige of this House. [More…]
Will your Party, if elected to government, give support during the Arbitration Commission’s future quarterly indexation cases to the adjustment of wages for price movements as measured by the consumer price index in the form of a full percentage adjustment on total award wages? [More…]
Governments in Australia are not decided by how many people there are in a particular party in the Senate; they are decided by how many people have been elected to particular Parties in the House of Representatives. [More…]
I also welcome into combat all those newly elected honourable members, particularly those on the other side of the chamber. [More…]
We, the Government, were elected above all to ensure that we avoided such a fate. [More…]
He played his part well and kept a tight lip about the plot to overthrow in mid term a properly elected government. [More…]
If you have got some charges to make, maybe you would like to make them and see if you can make a better fist than the gentleman you elected as your Deputy Leader. [More…]
When Mr Fraser was elected Leader of the Opposition he said that he would not force an early election and he would not block Medibank. [More…]
It is a very serious allegation which affects the whole framework of our relations with the United States of America and certainly imputes that the CIA is very active here in Australia and is even prepared to take action to overthrow a constitutionally elected government. [More…]
I was one of the 59 members of the Australian Labor Party who were elected to the Twenty-seventh Parliament of Australia despite the party bias in the electoral system that had caused us narrowly to fail to win that Parliament. [More…]
I believed him when he said that he had a faith that a government once elected to office should serve its full term. [More…]
On that occasion a government twice elected by the people with a majority in the House of Representatives was dismissed. [More…]
It was dismissed by a non-elected official. [More…]
There was a conspiracy with the Chief Justice to remove the elected government. [More…]
He refused to take any of the alternatives to sacking the Government, the elected government of this country. [More…]
The least that the Governor-General could have done, having decided to call a double dissolution, was to have left the elected Prime Minister and the Government in office. [More…]
If a Labor government is elected, then anything goes- any breaches of the rules, any breaches of convention, even a coup d’etat, to get rid of a Labor government. [More…]
If Mr Speaker had been here I would have said to him that both he and I have been through triumphs and disasters since we were first elected to this Parliament on 10 December 1955. [More…]
The election of 13 December- preceded as it was by connivance, conspiracy and obstruction against the elected government- has thrown up the remarkable results which can now be seen in this chamber. [More…]
A senator from New South Wales must gain a quota of 232 588 votes to be elected. [More…]
A senator from Tasmania needs to gain only 20 2 1 1 votes to be elected- one tenth. [More…]
A senator from the Northern Territory needs only 9476 votes to be declared elected. [More…]
Many matters concerning the undemocratic assault on the elected Labor Government shocked millions of Australians and shook the faith of the world in the Australian parliamentary process. [More…]
Would he have been responsive to the views of the House if he had received the Speaker or would his refusal to meet the Speaker in itself be an indication of his indifference to the views of the elected members of this Parliament? [More…]
Being a member of a newly elected government, I honestly did not want to make a maiden speech in which I made an attack on the previous government. [More…]
-The Liberal Party and the National Country Party have been elected to government with a record majority. [More…]
I think it is reasonable that we ask ourselves why and what we are elected to do. [More…]
Clearly the Government was elected to provide honest and competent government again and above all to restore the economy to health. [More…]
The Gallup polls which, I think, usually canvass some 2600 Australians in all States, indicated that 8 1 per cent- 81 per cent, mind you- of all Australians agreed that it is a good idea to have an elected Senate to act as a House of review. [More…]
-Mr Lucock, Mr Deputy Speaker, I should like to join in congratulations to you on your election to your office, and to express my surprise at your being re-elected to Parliament. [More…]
I think it is important for all parliamentariansthose who have been elected recently and those of us who have been here for some time- to be aware of what the Press can do to one and for one. [More…]
Mr Speaker, a week ago I had the pleasure of congratulating you on being elected to your office. [More…]
The people were told last October, November and December that the state of the nation required and justified any breach of the Constitution, any attack on conventions and traditions; any departure from honour and decency; any disruption; any deception; any duplicity to destroy the properly elected Government in mid-term. [More…]
In no other democracy in the world could a president or a head of state dismiss an elected government with half of its term to serve, a Prime Minister and a Government with a secure majority in the People’s House. [More…]
Labor Government had been sacked, still showed a vote in which the ALP had the majority among the elected members of the House. [More…]
The Labor Government was under constant pressure for an election within 24 hours of being elected in 1972, and it was under that pressure that it endeavoured to operate during its 3 years of office. [More…]
It is possible that under normal election circumstances the Liberal-Country parties would have been elected to Government. [More…]
I feel privileged because I stand here having been elected to represent over 100 000 people of the electorate of Evans, an inner western suburb electorate of Sydney which contains a crosssection of the Australian people and therefore represents the aspirations and hopes of the Australian people as a whole. [More…]
I can assure honourable members on the other side of the House and the shadowy figures that control them, the tiny minority who think they have a God given right to decide which party will form the government, that the Labor movement is united as it never has been before and we will not forget the shameful train of events in which one individual, an individual who was not even responsive to the views of the sovereign he allegedly represents, decreed that the elected government was to be replaced. [More…]
We will keep the fire burning for the next 3 years and we will once more assume our place on the Government benches to carry out the job that we were twice elected to do. [More…]
That requirement is the obligation- I believe the electorate and the Australian people in general feel this way also -on governments, when elected, to maintain full employment. [More…]
We say that the principal requirements of this Government that has just been elected are twofold. [More…]
A great many people in Australia feared very much, when that Government was elected, that it was going to go back much further than 30 years, perhaps well into the 1 9th century. [More…]
In Australia the Senate is a democratically elected House, elected by the same people who elect the House of Representatives. [More…]
The Senate is elected on a basis of proportional representation whereas the House of Representatives is elected on an electorate basis. [More…]
They are both elected, as I have said, by the same people. [More…]
The United States apparently elected to have that level of unemployment, unacceptable though it is, in order to have a more acceptable rate of inflation. [More…]
People in State and local government felt that it was no longer their responsibility to look after the areas for which they had been elected. [More…]
The capacity for each level of government to truly represent the people and to make decisions which they have been elected to make is the crux. [More…]
Of course the office bearers of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union are elected by a secret ballot. [More…]
I hope that the newly elected honourable member for Canberra (Mr Haslem) understands clearly the pressure that these measures will cause here in Canberra. [More…]
This Government was elected by the people and the people are dictating the terms at the moment. [More…]
-Firstly, I should like to offer my congratulations to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, on being elected to the high office which you hold. [More…]
I do not think that any government has faced greater frustrations than those faced by the Whitlam Labor Government after it was elected in 1972. [More…]
We saw a Government that was twice elected to office ejected from office by the actions of the Governor-General. [More…]
Also, we extend our congratulations to you, Sir, and to all other honourable members who have been elected as officers of this honourable House. [More…]
It is to observe as we do in our prayers our duty to God, to stand up for the things which are right, to serve the people who have elected me here, to work for the Australian people as long as I am in this Parliament and above all to support and care for the traditions of this honourable House. [More…]
Time and again we see the Press campaign of denigration of the elected member of the Parliament, whoever he may be. [More…]
The campaign then really started in earnest to bring about the defeat of the twice elected Labor Government. [More…]
The net result of this maniacal Press exercise of power was the dismissal of the democratically elected Labor Government by the Governor-General. [More…]
A new Government was subsequently elected by what we call a democratic election. [More…]
The important issue is whether the Central Intelligence Agency has been operating in Australia covertly to topple a legitimately elected Labor Government. [More…]
It has been established as a fact that the CIA has been involved in activities to topple legitimately elected governments in other parts of the world, so why not in Australia. [More…]
I have no doubt that these investigations will establish that the United States of America Central Intelligence Agency has engaged in covert activities in Australia over a long period which eventually led to the destruction of a legitimately elected government. [More…]
The key to the Arabian treasure chest was produced, he said, at a private luncheon in his home soon after Labor was elected in 1972. [More…]
I might say that this 2-airline policy has bugged every Minister responsible for civil aviation who has handled this question ever since I was elected to Parliament in 1961. [More…]
But it recognises that a government elected by the people of Australia has a moral right at least- a de facto right, at any rate- to be heard. [More…]
Unless there are weighty reasons for disregarding the viewpoint of an elected government, the Commission, I believe, ought to listen to what the Government has to say. [More…]
He had no sooner been elected to government when his Minister for Science countermanded the instruction that I had given that the executive of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation should have on it one representative of the CSIRO officers and scientists and staff representatives to be elected by the people employed by the CSIRO. [More…]
The Governor-General’s Address was also different in that the Opposition members did not attend the opening of the Parliament to which they were elected. [More…]
This has been the bleat by people opposite since they were elected and during the course of the election campaign. [More…]
I have heard the argument put that one cannot draw a parallel between the House of Representatives in Australia and the House of Commons in Britain because the Parliament of Australia has as its House of review or upper House an elected chamber, whereas the British Parliament has an appointed house as its House of review. [More…]
I wonder just how elected is the Senate, how elected are the 64 people who now make up that chamber? [More…]
In a half Senate election there are 5 senators to be elected in each of the States. [More…]
So 4 people are not elected from each State. [More…]
So in a half Senate situation only 6 senators are elected. [More…]
In a full chamber there are only 12 elected senators, the other 52 being appointed. [More…]
So it is not true to say that the Senate is a truly elected House. [More…]
Either those on the other side believe that there was no constitutional crisis; either they believe that the GovernorGeneral at any time can willy-nilly dismiss the government of the day- a government properly elected, properly in office, never having acted illegally- or they must concede that there was a constitutional crisis that had to be resolved by the Governor-General. [More…]
As a newly elected member to this House I am fully aware of the position I hold in helping to shape the events of the nation and of society. [More…]
This world was different in 1975 even from 1965, and certainly from 1955 when I was elected to this House. [More…]
It may well be that in a democratic society with a popularly elected Parliament, with both Houses elected on adult suffrage, the issues which were before the Parliament may not have had the right of carriage. [More…]
One of the editors of a newspaper referred the other day to the fact that this was the first time that a government had been elected without having to produce a program. [More…]
Whilst my interest in rural affairs probably stems only from when I was elected in 1969 and a period prior to that, at least I can go back to that time. [More…]
Last year he and his cousin devised a plan to overthrow the elected government commanding a majority in the House of Representatives. [More…]
-by leave- This Government has been elected to office at a time when the Australian economy is experiencing the results of its most serious setback in the post-war period. [More…]
It consisted of 58 elected and 2 appointed members and neither of the appointed members represented the Party to which the senators whose places they filled had belonged. [More…]
It also raises the question of the rights of parliamentary democracy to prevail without the intrusion by individuals who are not elected by the people of this country and to protect the rights of parliamentarians to carry out their obligations to the people who elect them without interference from the Commonwealth police or any other organisation. [More…]
I should like to join with other speakers in congratulating the right honourable member for Bruce (Mr Snedden) on being elected as Speaker of this House. [More…]
I also congratulate the honourable member for Lyne, Mr Lucock, on being elected Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees. [More…]
My delight has been in observing in this place the quality of the new honourable members who have been elected to this House for the first time. [More…]
He was first elected for the seat of Martin in 1943, at what was then regarded as the very young age for a parliamentarian of thirty. [More…]
In 1949 he was elected to the newly created seat of Grayndler which he represented thereafter with very great distinction until his retirement. [More…]
In June 1891 the Labor Party in Australia commenced when in the elections of that year 36 Labor candidates were elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. [More…]
These opportunities can be provided only if governments and the community itself acting through its elected representatives will provide them. [More…]
Will members of the Opposition never learn that they are here in this place not as an official Opposition to the Governor-General but as duly elected representatives of the people, to make some significant contribution to their welfare and prosperity? [More…]
That the committee elect as Deputy Chairman one of the members nominated by the Leader of the Opposition being a member from a different House than the Chairman, and that the member so elected act as Chairman of the committee at any time when the Chairman is not present at a meeting of the committee. [More…]
People are elected to this House, to this Parliament, to ensure, amongst other things, that their tax monies are well used. [More…]
It is proposed that the chairman should be elected from the members nominated by the Prime Minister or by the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Withers). [More…]
The purposes of this Bill are to make special long service leave provisions for those New South Wales and South Australian teachers who were employed in the Australian Capital Territory and in the Northern Territory respectively in 1973 and who elected to join the Commonwealth Teaching Service before 1 January 1974; to enable provision to be made for the employment of teachers at technical colleges in the Australian Capital Territory and to make other amendments to the legislation arising from the provisions of enactments which have been made since the Teaching Service legislation was last amended. [More…]
I also wish to congratulate the honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock), on again being elected Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the House of Representatives. [More…]
One important lesson is that democratically elected governments are the servants of the people and that the individual is the most important element in a democracy. [More…]
The Menzies conservative Government was elected in 1949 and it was not until 1972 that they started a decentralisation policy, the setting up the National Urban and Regional Development Authority 2 weeks before it was defeated in 1972. [More…]
It is essential that not only should the Australian people be aware and kept informed of the world around us and the circumstances, which change daily, but that the men and women who are elected to this Parliament with the fundamental responsibility of leading the Australian people and of setting a standard of excellence and an appreciaton of the problems which this nation must face, should ensure that this Committee has indeed a real role to perform. [More…]
I became a member of the Committee shortly after I was elected a member of this House. [More…]
When that body was created a great deal of thought was given to how we would define the boundaries of electorates and how its members would be elected. [More…]
It is possible that I will be elected to the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs in this occasion. [More…]
Let us face it: The Assembly had been elected for 13 months during the term of the Labor Government and it did not give the Assembly constitutional responsibility either. [More…]
Now, in Opposition, it has elected to put yet another man in the position of economic spokesman. [More…]
What happened after Labor was elected in December 1972? [More…]
Sir, I go a stage further: Not only am I glad that he has been elected to that position but I also appreciate the clarity with which he expresses himself when he is speaking to the House. [More…]
This Government has been elected with a very great majority; yet it does not regard as important the need to represent a very great majority of people in this House. [More…]
We were not elected to supervise the disintegration of the traditional Australian way of life or the concern of the average Australian citizen for his fellow man. [More…]
The Senate was elected by the people in 1974. [More…]
We know that it consisted of 58 senators elected by the people and 2 senators who were appointed. [More…]
The Premier of Queensland, who is commonly referred to as holy Joh, played a major part in the downfall of the people’s elected Government. [More…]
Many new Australians in the Newcastle region of the Hunter electorate cannot understand how one man can dismiss the popularly elected people’s government; they cannot understand how it can be destroyed by one man. [More…]
There was an election for a fully elected Legislative Assembly in the Northern Territory, at which the Australian Labor Party was wiped out as a political entity in the Northern Territory. [More…]
In the face of those policy statements I say again that it is imperative for the Government to take the Northern Territory into its confidence, that is, through its elected leaders. [More…]
I cannot speak for the first time in this House without expressing my sincere gratitude to the electors of Barker who supported the Liberal Party and elected me to be their voice in this Parliament. [More…]
If the power of Opposition members in the Senate to destroy the elected government at will is not eliminated then the long term consequences of such a capricious and politically motivated power to destroy will itself destroy all vestiges of stability and certainty in Australian government and administration. [More…]
It is a perversion of the very nature of representative democracy that the elected representatives of the people can be hamstrung in their task of government by just those men that the people have rejected as potential administrators of the nation ‘s affairs. [More…]
During its period in office as a twice elected Government, the Australian Labor Party sought to implement programs for a more just and equitable distribution of wealth within the Australian society. [More…]
In the Northern Territory 21 members were elected for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, and the ALP did not win one seat. [More…]
One of the myths on which Labor was elected in 1972 was that it had a special relationship with the unions. [More…]
It has been many years since a government was elected with a mandate to make cuts and revision. [More…]
However, it does represent another attempt on the part of communism in this country to take foreign policy decisions out of the hands of the properly elected Government and into the streets and the backrooms of the Left. [More…]
The records of Hansard are full of speeches by new members preoccupied with these considerations, but it is a clear matter of fact that the predicament has never been more acute than when the Fraser Government was elected on 13 December last. [More…]
Undoubtedly, we must give Australians the priority because that is why we are elected; that is why we are here and it is our prime responsibility. [More…]
The Labor Party, in its opinion and in the opinion of the man, elected the greatest barrister this country had to put the case for the defence. [More…]
I find it very sad that an elected member of this House, representing the independent democratic people of Australia, should deny that same independence, that some democratic right, to our neighbours in Portuguese East Timor, which is only 300 miles from Darwin. [More…]
I think that this matter needs to be looked at in the context that the Governor-General- an appointed person, not an elected person- is the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. [More…]
He is an appointed person, not an elected person, as is the [More…]
Yet the GovernorGeneral of Australia has assumed the power to make sure that he could dismiss a constitutionally elected government. [More…]
For that reason I say that it is well and truly time that the Constitution of Australia was revised to make it very clear that in the future no GovernorGeneral can take the action of dismissing a constitutionally elected government. [More…]
Furthermore, it should be made clear that in the future no Governor-General- an appointed person, not an elected person- shall hold the position of Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, a position which could be abused, a position which is very dangerous for an appointed person- not a person who has been elected by the people of Australia, a person who finally depends upon the confidence of the people of Australia, but a person whom frankly I do not trust- to hold. [More…]
For those reasons I believe that action is very necessary indeed to overhaul the Constitution of this country, to make sure that in future the Prime Minister, as the elected head of Government, is the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, not a person appointed. [More…]
For example, in the United States it is the President, an elected person, who is the CommanderinChief of the Armed Forces. [More…]
It is time that the power of the Senate, which is elected every 6 years- with the exception of the case of a double dissolution, each senator is elected for a period of 6 years- was curtailed. [More…]
As I have said, there could be senators elected today who would hold office for 6 years, while a new government will be elected in the House of Representatives in 3 years’ time. [More…]
For this reason I believe that the Governor-General should not hold the office of commander-in-chief of the armed forces and I believe that action should be taken by the Government to ensure that an elected person is placed in that very onerous position. [More…]
An elected person should make the decision as to whether the armed forces shall be used or, to use the vernacular, whether the button shall be pressed. [More…]
Everybody knows about him now and knows what he used to get elected. [More…]
As a newly elected member of this Parliament I know that I have a lot to learn about government and I respect the greater experience which I know lies concealed under the grey eminences- and some not so grey- around me. [More…]
Before one attains the honour and privilege of being elected as a member of this House there are usually some people who hold public office and whom one hopes to emulate. [More…]
I also thank the electors of the Federal division of Brisbane for the great honour and privilege of being their elected representative in Canberra. [More…]
Even today the overwhelming majority of Australians who supported or even opposed the Whitlam-led Labor Government are stunned and dumbfounded at the role the people’s House plays in financial matters and at that power being usurped by the undemocratically elected members of the other chamber. [More…]
Some might say that the members of the other chamber who took on themselves this power to block the supply of finance which is necessary to run the various government departments of this great country were democratically elected but when one remembers the appointments of Senator Field of Queensland and Senator Bunton of New South Wales it is hard to understand how anyone could come to that conclusion. [More…]
If they were not the choice of the people of those States, how could it be claimed that they were democratically elected? [More…]
The democratic system of this country has reached a very low level if people can be appointed to the Senate by State governments and then have the power to block the supply of finance approved by this House of Representatives a House in which each member is elected by the wishes and the votes of the people of Australia. [More…]
The Governor-General failed to inform the nation why that singular power held by the House of Representatives was allowed to be sidetracked and subverted by an undemocratically elected Senate, a hostile Senate that constitutionally has no power to initiate money Bills or even to amend money Bills. [More…]
In the absence of advice on this matter by the GovernorGeneral the electors, in my opinion, are forced to assume that the people’s House- the House of Representatives- has power relating to money Bills only on the basis of good faith by a Senate composed of senators not elected but nominated by State political leaders. [More…]
Before doing so, I congratulate you on being elected to your high and honourable position. [More…]
During that period he set an example to all parliamentarians oh how elected representatives should look after their electorates. [More…]
We see problems for Canberra, as for other areas of development and enterprise, over the next year or so; but I am confident that this period of enforced consolidation is what the people who elected me see as being needed. [More…]
In a big issue like this- one of the most important issues affecting his electorate and probably the most important issue that has affected his electorate since he was elected- he cannot even get in touch with one of his Ministers, let alone the Prime Minister, to find out whether the project is to go ahead. [More…]
Look at the long years under the previous Liberal-Country Party Governments until the Labor Government was elected in 1972. [More…]
I am their duly elected representative and I know their real concern. [More…]
I know the reason why I was elected with a majority of 12 000 votes. [More…]
I would have liked to see elected representatives from consumer organisations serving on the Review Committee. [More…]
It is now almost 4 months since the present Government was elected to office. [More…]
A report appeared in the issue of 6 December 1975 of the Central Coast Express stating that the report in the Sydney Sun was false and that the Liberal Party, if elected to government, would maintain the Labor Government’s commitment to Old Sydney Town. [More…]
Of course, those contributors could have elected not to take the units, but that destroys the whole purpose of an adequate superannuation scheme. [More…]
It is the elected representatives of the people who are closest to those aspirations and needs. [More…]
-Mr Chairman, my consideration of this clause has, quite frankly, given me more anxiety than any consideration of any clause that I have ever had to deliberate upon since 14 May 1966 when I was first elected to a Parliament. [More…]
I was pleased to confirm to the Palace in December last, after the Government had been elected to office, the invitation which had been extended at an earlier date by the former Prime Minister. [More…]
They had previously elected (repeatedly) to remain on deferred pay after 1948, as this additional pay was to be paid in a lump sum on retirement, in lieu of a pension. [More…]
My information is that at the last election for the leadership of the union to which I think the honourable member referred- the AMWU, which has some 170 000 members- the leadership was elected on a vote of approximately 1.8 per cent of the membership of the union. [More…]
Is it a fact that on Monday of this week the Industrial Registrar convened a meeting of officials of unions which have not yet altered their rules to meet the statutory requirement that as from November of this year a full-time union officer entitled to vote as a member of the management committee of the organisation shall be directly elected by the membership of the union? [More…]
I can recall that when I was elected to this chamber the now Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) was the Prime Minister of this country. [More…]
In fairness to him, I can recall how I, a newlyelected member, was very impressed by his logical exposition and by the force of his arguments although I always seemed to disagree with the premise from which he started. [More…]
I have been recording the figures religiously since I was elected to this place in 1969, and there has never been a figure of job vacancies so low. [More…]
If he had been elected at the last federal election he would have been in a position to carry out his part of the bargain. [More…]
Four months after honourable members opposite were elected to office we have a protest in Canberra about the immoral action that they have taken in relation to the NEAT scheme. [More…]
The protesters will be here on Thursday, which is again 4 months after the Fraser Government was elected to office. [More…]
The fact is that if Mr Wran is elected, the New South Wales public can expect a repetition of the inflationary, centralist, and spendthrift policies of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
It is clear from the statement of the Leader of the Opposition in New South Wales that, if elected, he would set out to sabotage the progress of these new reforms. [More…]
If by some tragedy of chance, which will not happen, he were elected as Premier of New South Wales on Saturday next he would be the only person out of step and there would be a major flaw, a major chink, in the policy we are implementing. [More…]
The Opposition also believes that the part of the motion which requires that the chairman of the committee must be elected from those members nominated by the Prime Minister should also be deleted. [More…]
He was elected to Parliament in 1955. [More…]
From time to time we see honourable members come into this chamber and talk with the same hysteria as the honourable member for St George did, but most of them, particularly those who were elected to seats such as the one to which he has been elected, do not last for very long. [More…]
What more violent action by forces outside the elected government could there be than the refusal of Supply? [More…]
Those men gave the impression to the President and General Ali Moertopo that if a Liberal-National Country Party government were elected it would acquiesce in an Indonesian takeover in Timor. [More…]
I have every confidence that members of the Opposition will be elected to the Committee and will support the value of the Committee. [More…]
People are elected to this House, to this Parliament, to ensure, amongst other things, that their tax moneys are well used. [More…]
This House of the Parliament and we as elected representatives are entitled to have scrutiny over the Estimates of the Government. [More…]
The discussion with the Iraqi emissaries, at the time of the receipt of the package, of the propositions that, if elected as Prime Minister, he would assure that Australian policy in the Middle East was changed, and that he would pass on to their organisation special information about the Middle East policies of the United States, Israel and other nations. [More…]
At a time when the Inspector-General of the Army Reserve, Major General J. M. L. MacDonald, recommended that the original proposal, namely, the differential, should be accepted, the government of the day- I offer no impeachment here at all- elected to accept the flat rate of $ 1 .20. [More…]
The woman concerned elected to have the matter of search determined by a Justice or Principal Officer of Customs; but before suitable arrangements for this could be made, she disrobed in the Customs Hall at the Terminal. [More…]
I would like to say that during the election campaign, not as the shadow Minister for Social Security but as the Minister for Social Security or the caretaker Minister for Social Security, I was authorised by the Cabinet itself to issue on 22 November a statement which committed this Government if elected to retain and maintain the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
Paul Whelan was elected to office with a swing of over 6500 votes from the result of the last election. [More…]
When Labor was elected in 1972 we were happy about our election, but this crowd look as if they have stolen the Crown jewels. [More…]
They have just elected a Labor Government in New South Wales, the largest State in Australia. [More…]
That is why they have run so doggo in the House of Representatives since being elected to office. [More…]
It was endorsed again by the people in 1972 and in 1974 when they elected and re-elected a [More…]
Mr R. J. Hawke who seems to think that he does not have to be elected Prime Minister, who seems to think that he can make statements that he can hold the Government to ransom and seems to think that he can stand over the Parliament. [More…]
A short time later he was elected a member of this honourable chamber, a position which he still holds. [More…]
When the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young), who is now leaving this chamber, spoke this afternoon I was surprised beyond belief that he had the wit or the gall to accuse the present Government of breaking the major promises on which it was elected to office. [More…]
This Government was elected on a promise of retaining wage indexation. [More…]
Will long term contributors to the Commonwealth Superannuation Fund who elected to retire at 60 years of age and do so, be entitled to receive 50 per cent pension, plus the 0.25 per cent for over 30 years service and indexation of pension, under the proposed new scheme; if not, why not. [More…]
Under the Election Expenses Act of 1974 candidates who are elected or who have received 1 5 per cent or more of the popular vote, and who have provided all information required by the Act are entitled to reimbursement as follows- [More…]
I gave as an example the failure of the Gaullists in France, the success of the socialists and communists in local government elections in that country, and the failure of the social democrats in State elections in Western Germany, and the fear of the communists being elected to Government in Italy. [More…]
With its known natural resources guaranteeing it a secure economic base, allied with the strength, resourcefulness and initiative of its people and under the guiding hand of the Territory’s own fully elected legislature, the future of the Territory must surely be bright. [More…]
As promised, this Government, immediately on being elected, began moves towards executive responsibility for the Legislative Assembly based on the recommendations of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Northern Territory which inquired into constitutional development in the Northern Territory- recommendations which were available to the previous government for 12 months. [More…]
Whilst I welcome the action taken in 1974 to establish a fully elected Legislative Assembly, there was little point in bringing that about without the transfer to the Assembly of real powers and responsibilities. [More…]
Indeed, the previous Government promised that not only would a fully elected Legislative Assembly be established for the Territory; it also promised increasing autonomy to the Territory through that Assembly. [More…]
It is, most importantly, an indication that the Government intends to work in a spirit of amicable cooperation with the people of the Territory and their elected representatives in the task of giving birth to Australia’s seventh State. [More…]
Members were elected as individuals and not as representatives of the Minister, the State. [More…]
Is he about to relegate the so-called Legislative Assembly, which has been elected by the people of Canberra, to the role of an advisory body to the nominated corporation, which will then be free to inflict harsh and irresponsible decisions on the people of Canberra in the same way as the Government did in last week’s mini-Budget? [More…]
When in Opposition the Prime Minister said often that confidence would return to the private sector immediately a Liberal-National Country Party government was elected. [More…]
It had 6 months of its 3-year period to run when our Government was elected to office last December. [More…]
I have some reservations, for example, about the Minister for Local Government in New South Wales having such power over municipal councils because those councils are elected by the residents of the area. [More…]
What the Liberal and National Country Party people are going to find, of course, and as they have included in so many of their statements, is that if we are to have responsible government in this country, if there is to be proper economic planning in this country, if we are to avoid many of the problems which are thrust upon other countries, when a government is elected it must see out its term of office. [More…]
We were elected with a comprehensive economic policy. [More…]
Never before has any government within weeks of its election got down to the job of solving the problems of the Australian economy with such determination- problems not of our making but certainly ones which the Australian people elected us to solve. [More…]
We have in the Public Service a quarter of a million people serving what they consider to be the Government of Australia, serving in a very neutral fashion what they consider to be the people who are elected to govern this country. [More…]
When the proposal to hold a constitutional convention was first made in 1972 I made it plain, on behalf of my Party, that if it were elected to government in 1972 it would participate in the Constitutional Convention on condition that local government also was able to participate in the Convention. [More…]
We were elected to government in December 1972. [More…]
In the first session of the Parliament elected in 1972 the Grants Commission’s charter was expanded to enable it to make grants to local government on a regional basis. [More…]
Some of the amendments introduce the much-heralded requirement for union officials to be elected by secret postal ballot. [More…]
Then, officials having been elected at that level, in turn national office bearers could be elected. [More…]
Since this Government was elected -again in marked contrast to our predecessorswe have been protesting, and not merely protesting verbally but making representations both to the Indonesian Government and earlier to Portuguese authorities. [More…]
Some form of United Nations participation and observation, I believe, is essential and we would welcome this development, in accordance with the line we have taken since being elected to Government. [More…]
It is ironic that the Government which now sits on the Treasury benches was elected to government because it told the Australian people, and in particular the 5 250 000 employees in the work force: ‘If you vote for us we will hand control of the unions back to the members. [More…]
But the election of all the other federal positions which were elected by the collegiate system as at that time- the positions of Federal President, Federal Vice-President, Federal Trustees and Federal Returning Officerand which were not full time positions could continue to be filled by the collegiate system of election. [More…]
I find it very hard to reconcile the conflicting views of anybody who is elected to Parliament, as honourable members opposite have been elected, on the promise of introducing or strengthening the principle of participatory democracy to give the rank and file the right to control their own union officials, and who then defends the collegiate system. [More…]
The House of Representatives, our House, is elected from relatively small areas. [More…]
We consider ourselves in a way closer’ to the people than are members of the Senate, which is elected on the electorate of the whole State and which therefore can really only be a party House. [More…]
The Senate, of course, is elected by the same electors exactly but does not represent the rank and file in the same sense as we, the House of the people, represent the rank and file. [More…]
The honourable member for Hindmarsh was elected a Minister of the Crown by the collegiate system of voting. [More…]
Even after the people of America cast their votes, the formal election of the President of the United States, the highest elected position in the world, will be decided by a college. [More…]
We know that some people who are elected should not be elected and have got in there by corrupt practices. [More…]
Difficulties may be found where officials were filling 2 positions in the past, elected to both positions at the same time, because of the very different and wider franchise under this Bill than is provided in the State jurisdiction. [More…]
There may be confusion in the minds of the voters as to the officials elected by the 2 procedures, and that confusion will grow because of the difference in voting procedures. [More…]
Obviously such fragmentation had to be overcome, and naturally enough the initiative was taken by the newly elected Labor Government. [More…]
If one is concerned with attitudes one could question why it took a government elected in December 1972- that was the Australian Labor Party Government- until May 1975 to create this Authority which of course honourable members opposite will say is so essential. [More…]
In its report the Committee, half of which is made up of new members elected to the Parliament in December 1975 and who have not heard the evidence placed before the 3 members of the sub-committee and the former Minister for Transport, notes the Government’s action and proposes to review the Bureau’s work after a period of time. [More…]
There are problems where the non elected persons decide that they know best. [More…]
If it wants politicians to perform the tasks for which they are elected they must have the resources, and the media must stop carping about the so-called benefits and perks given to politicians to carry out their duties. [More…]
I would therefore press strongly that the Government does not forget that in 1972 the Liberal Party was able to promise abolition of the means test by the end of 1975 if it had then been elected. [More…]
The report recommended the steady devolution of executive autonomy for the Territory Assembly- a body which is now an elected body thanks to the initiative of the former Labor Government. [More…]
The Minister for the Northern Territory (Mr Adermann) made reference in his second reading speech to the Labor Party’s initiative for a fully elected Legislative Assembly but went on to say: ‘The promises and assurances were speedily forgotten and the Assembly ignored . [More…]
The Whitlam Labor Government carried this concept further to a fully elected House. [More…]
I admit that the Labor Government did institute an election for a fully elected Legislative Assembly but then it sat down and did nothing during the next 12 months. [More…]
I compliment the present majority leader and executive members in the Legislative Assembly on their responsible attitude to the awkward situation in which they found themselves when elected to office, albeit with a 17 to nil majority over the Labor Party. [More…]
Such an attitude can only involve a blatant breach of faith in that the Liberal-National Country Party spokesman for Aboriginal Affairs during the last election, the present AttorneyGeneral telegraphed all Aboriginal communities with the unequivocal assurance that there would be no cuts in the Aboriginal affairs budget or in the Aboriginal affairs program if a LiberalNational Country Party government was elected to office. [More…]
Another matter giving concern is the Government’s vacillation about the role of the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee which was established by the Labor Administration and which comprises 41 elected representatives of Aboriginal electorates throughout Australia. [More…]
They were the sort of people who get elected on Liberal tickets all around Australia. [More…]
We knew that Aboriginal people elected in circumstances such as that would not get off the ground and become the kind of formidable people that members of this Parliament become in dealing with authority. [More…]
I personally have been looking forward to the introduction of this piece of legislation ever since I was elected to Parliament. [More…]
I recall that this was so much on my mind when I was elected to Parliament that the first letter I wrote to a Minister of the new Government was to Senator Greenwood to ask him to take steps to bring forward this legislation as soon as he possibly could. [More…]
I am under some pressure not to speak for too long on this matter, despite the fact that I think it is a most significant piece of legislation, despite the fact that it is a piece of legislation that I have been looking forward to ever since I was elected to this House, despite the fact that I am interested to get back into my electorate next week and tell the people there about what they have been looking for. [More…]
The only official bodies specifically excluded are those of a judicial nature and the elected Legislative Assemblies of the Territories. [More…]
He was one of the few engineersmaybe the only engineer- to be elected to this Parliament. [More…]
I remember that soon after I was elected I said to him: ‘Sir, what shall I call you?’ [More…]
Senator Bull had a considerable knowledge of the workings of the Parliament and after serving as a Temporary Chairman of Committees for some time in 1969 he was elected Chairman of Committees and Deputy President of the Senate. [More…]
He was elected to the Senate in 1937. [More…]
Laurence John Failes was elected to this chamber in 1949 as member for Lawson. [More…]
Senator Aylett was first elected to the Parliament in 1938. [More…]
When this Government was elected on 13 December last, Australia was in bad shape. [More…]
It seems that we have not got into the habit of allowing women to be elected to the Parliament as members but it is very nice indeed that we do have women taking the shorthand. [More…]
How were the Australian or Federal Presidents or chief spokesman of each of these bodies elected or appointed. [More…]
But what remains absolutely certain- I made this point yesterday- is that the result of 3 years of Labor government lifted unemployment from 136 000 when Labor was elected to 328 000 when it went out of office. [More…]
This in turn will benefit the community at large, whom we have been elected to serve. [More…]
A political strike is one in which the union uses the strike weapon to cause such dislocation to the economy or inconvenience to the population that the elected government is under great pressure to concede the political decision that the union is urging upon it. [More…]
But we on this side of the House believe that it is improper for a union to use its industrial muscle in pursuit of political ends, which are the legitimate responsibility of the elected members of this Parliament. [More…]
Labor would do exactly the same again if elected to power. [More…]
Indeed, it was what the Fraser Government was elected to do. [More…]
On 13 December last year they chucked the Labor Party well and truly out of office, and elected a Liberal-National Country Party Government with a mandate to get Australia back on to sound economic ground and to run the country as managers and not as amateurs. [More…]
The Whitlam Government, which was elected to power in December 1972, had a commitment to overcome the plight facing urban development. [More…]
Most Australians were hoping that a Budget would be brought down that would in some way dim the memory of the blot on the history of our democratic way of life- a Budget that would in some way justify the sacking of a duly elected government. [More…]
Having spent the last weekend in my electorate in central Queensland I am pleased to be able to report to the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) that the Budget has a large degree of support in that area- with the exception, of course, of one or two elected members in that area who belong to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The Labor Government was elected to correct that situation. [More…]
I was elected to this Parliament on 13 December 1975 to be only the second non-Labor member for Macquarie since 1906. [More…]
The great weakness of Mr Whitlam ‘s speech was its failure to recognise that the Budget tried to do what the coalition was elected to do: fix up the economy; cut Government spending; reduce taxes. [More…]
Mr Fraser was elected with this charterabhorrent though it may be to many- largely in reaction to Mr Whitlam ‘s own excesses. [More…]
That is why a Labor Government was elected to power in New South Wales. [More…]
The action of the Senate in cutting off the supply of money to the Government earlier in the year established a dangerous precedent that will invite future Opposition majorities in the Senate to strike down the elected Government at any time they choose. [More…]
Properly elected governments planning a 3-year program will in future always be confronted with the knowledge that when an unpopular but proper measure is just beginning to produce the desired results, the Opposition could suddenly attempt to cash in on temporary public hostility to grab the reins of Government The behaviour of the present Opposition Parties proves beyond doubt that they have no respect for the institution of Parliament or of the right of the people who elected the Government [More…]
Again he draws a distinction from Westminster which is quite specious, that the House of Lords is appointed and the Senate elected. [More…]
That clearly gave the impression to the whole of this country that the Liberal and Country Parties, if elected to office, would support full percentage wage indexation. [More…]
But the then Opposition said that if elected to government it would overcome those difficulties. [More…]
I want to take the House back to the economic climate operating in December 1972 when Labor was elected. [More…]
When Labor was elected in 1972 it inherited a time bomb. [More…]
They suggest, apparently, that the political strike- the strike which aims to determine or influence national policy in defiance of the responsibilities of an elected government- is a legitimate weapon. [More…]
Does the Australian Government continue to recognise the anti-democratic military junta which overthrew the democratically elected Allende Government of Chile; if so, why? [More…]
The time is approaching when the Australian public will have to think very seriously about how much more it is going to take of the trade unions trying to run this country instead of its being run by the democratically elected government. [More…]
I am well aware of the fact that the new Government, which was elected last December, has not come up to the expectations of many people. [More…]
The simple fact is that society, through the government of the day, elected to establish a universal health scheme and the present Government, through its pre-election undertaking not to dismantle the scheme, has effected such modification so as to ensure that the scheme will not consume the economy as has been the case in other countries. [More…]
The great weakness of the Leader of the Opposition ‘s speech on the Budget was its failure to recognise that the Budget tried to do what the coalition parties were elected to do- to fix up the economy, to cut government spending and reduce taxes. [More…]
-When the Fraser Government was elected on 13 December last it was given a clear mandate by the Australian people to put the economy of this country on its feet. [More…]
On this occasion the Commission has elected to seek 22 per cent of its capital expenditure in the way of borrowings from the domestic capital market as against a borrowing of 24 per cent from the Treasury. [More…]
-When we cut through all of the nonsense that Government members have spoken about their economic policy, we get back to this simple fact: They were elected to reduce inflation and unemployment. [More…]
In keeping with the whole Government approach- restraint in all areas- this Budget has shown that, whereas the Labor Government may have made some mistakes in attempting to stimulate development in areas which have been stultified for 20 years, the only positive actionthis is a rather Irish approach, I guess- the present Government has taken has been to stifle every initiative the Labor Government put forward, every initiative the Australian community voted for, and every initiative we talked about in the period from about 1968 onwards until we were elected which clearly excited the Australian community and prompted people to vote for a Labor Government. [More…]
An improved standard of administration, the expertise of council officers and elected representatives and the establishment of an independent local government public service will take many years to achieve. [More…]
It should well be remembered that Salvador Allende, a man elected to office with only 36 per cent of the popular vote, proceeded, upon his election, on a deliberate program to disrupt, overturn and destroy Chile’s traditional institutions and resorted to illegal methods in violation of that country’s constitution. [More…]
If there was a reversal of the situation in Chile, at least Allende was elected by the people of Chile. [More…]
I regard myself as an elected member of this House and my boss is the House, if I have a boss at all. [More…]
I realise, of course, that this nation is attempting to do what a previous non-Labor Government attempted in the United Kingdom, but we are doing it much more successfully and for one very clear reason, that is, that when the Heath Government was elected it was elected with almost a 50/50 majority. [More…]
But, worse than that, there are so-called political scientists who seem to be reconciled to the fact that the country is being run by non-elected people, people who have the best will in the world but who nevertheless are in the senior ranks of the Public Service. [More…]
Historians who understand the evolution of the supremacy of the Parliament over taxation, expenditure and administration generally should be concerned at the handicaps placed in the way of the elected members in examining the administration of this country. [More…]
to ensure that the House of Representatives and each State House of Parliament are composed of members directly elected on the principle of one vote one value; [More…]
In 3 years the Senate demonstrated that it was prepared to be instructed by the then Leader of the Opposition in this House, contrary to the wishes of the elected Government represented in this House. [More…]
There was no doubt in the world that from the time we were elected the Opposition’s majority in the Senate was going to be used to frustrate the policies that had been approved by the people in December 1972. [More…]
I shall not go into the details of what happened between December 1972 and December 1975 except to say that on numerous occasions items of legislation that had been passed by this, the elected House, were refused a passage by the Senate. [More…]
Even after the people of Australia had re-elected the Labor Government, the Senate, with the majority of members representing parties that were the minority in this House, continued to frustrate our legislation. [More…]
Then, out of the blue, one man- a man who was not elected to his position and who, as far as I know, has never run in an election in his life; if he has run in any, he has not won any- made a decision to dismiss the duly elected Government of Australia which had faced the people in December 1972 and May 1974. [More…]
The actions of the Senate had caused a constitutional crisis and one man made a decision to dismiss the duly elected Government. [More…]
When the elected Cabinet agrees on those recommendations- it is that elected Ministry which must have the final say- those plans about growth rates must be converted into energy needs, manpower needs, immigration needs and education needs in order to make decisions on what should be the key industries, decisions on the protection of full employment in this country and decisions in many other related areas. [More…]
We know, if our elected government decides on a 4 per cent growth rate, what this means in terms of energy needs, in terms of allocation of resources to the various areas in our economy and so on. [More…]
It was allowed to continue its work after the present Government was elected. [More…]
For over 30 years in South Australia we suffered not a gerrymander but what was termed a playmander, in that 2 representatives from the country had to be elected for every representative from the city. [More…]
That was the situation right up until 1965 and, in fact, after Labor was elected in 1965. [More…]
In spite of all the fears which over the years were driven into country people, we now find that the House of Assembly is to be elected on the basis of one vote one value. [More…]
This is in spite of the charge or allegation that it will take 54 per cent of the vote to have the Liberal Country League elected. [More…]
In fact, recent accurate analyses of voting figures show quite clearly that only twice in its record period of office of 32 years was the Playford Government elected with a minority of votes. [More…]
So local government authorities- popularly elected bodies- were able to discharge the duties they should be able to discharge. [More…]
Certainly, it is the fault of the Government which prevailed for 23 years in office before the Labor Government was elected in 1972. [More…]
It is sad that it has taken 10 months for this Government to get back to where it was when it was elected and that it had to use these political opportunities to score off the most deprived and depressed people in Australia. [More…]
Will the Opposition never learn that it is here not as an official Opposition to the Governor-General but as the duly elected representatives of the people to make some contribution towards their welfare and prosperity, a task which continues to elude the Opposition? [More…]
Our education authority and health administration likewise must be answerable to the local electorate through the community and through elected local representatives. [More…]
This Government was elected to office on the theme that is was going to reduce inflation. [More…]
I think that a comparison of the Australian Capital Territory operation and the Northern Territory operation provides a good demonstration of the difficulties of singlemember constituencies in trying to arrive at a democratically elected structure. [More…]
I promise him that when we discuss these estimates again next year he will see that some remarkable advances and changes have taken place and they will be the result of cooperation between this Government and the elected government of the Northern Territory. [More…]
We have heard about the destruction of the Government of Thailand which was elected as a result of a reasonably free election in April 1 976 following an election in 1 975. [More…]
The aim of the Leader of the Opposition in promoting regionalism was not to establish elected systems of government at regional levels or to preserve local government at the local level or to support the States, but rather to set up an administrative network based upon regions. [More…]
His aim was to replace the elected representative in local government and the elected representative in State government by a Federal bureaucrat who would be instructed to follow the guidelines of policy determined by a single parliament here in Canberra. [More…]
Though it can serve a useful purpose, I think the House will agree that this form of public participation is not as effective as that which should be encouraged to take place between concerned citizens and their elected representatives. [More…]
The elected local councillor is not only more willing, but also more able to respond to the wishes of the community than a bureaucrat appointed and controlled by a central legislature. [More…]
For this reason we urge the Government to revise its approach and to write into the legislation the principle that each State should have its own local government representative elected from its local government organ. [More…]
But we hear the silly fellows opposite who were elected on the basis of this mindless slogan, Turn On the Lights’ and other such ridiculous slogans. [More…]
It is an absurd irony that in this country the Government makes funds available to voluntary agencies- to charity- to do work amongst the ethnic communities when it will not make funds available to locally elected government bodies. [More…]
It is the same function regardless of whether we are talking about a democratically elected body delivering it or a body of self-appointed do-gooders. [More…]
In nominating persons to be the members referred to in paragraph (2) (j), the Council of Local Government Associations shall ensure that the local governing bodies in each State are represented by one of those persons, being a person elected for that purpose, in accordance with a method determined by the Council of Local Government Associations, by the members of the local government councils in the State. [More…]
The amendment I have moved would provide that the representative on the Advisory Council for Inter-Government Relations from each State should be chosen by the elected members of local government bodies in that State. [More…]
The amendment would provide that the State representative in each case should be chosen by the people who have been elected to local government bodies in that State. [More…]
It is a reasonable and feasible method by which to let the people who represent local government be the persons who are chosen by those who serve in local government- who have been elected to local councils. [More…]
He has seen that because I have said that the method by which the elected aldermen and councillors in each State should choose a representative for that State on the Advisory Council for Inter-Government Relations should be in accordance with a method determined by the Council of Local Government Associations. [More…]
I am suggesting that the very body which this Bill nominates- the Australian Council of Local Government Associations-should suggest the method by which local government elected persons in each State should themselves elect a representative for themselves on the Advisory Council for InterGovernment Relations. [More…]
We could have a majority on the Council of Local Government Associations which would not be sympathetic to the majority point of view held by the elected aldermen and councillors in any one State. [More…]
Here the person who is chosen as the local government representative does not have to be an elected person at all. [More…]
Sail less does he have to be chosen by the people who have been elected to local government bodies in the State. [More…]
Farmers would do well to look critically at what this Government has done and to analyse the promises it made before it was elected. [More…]
He was elected in 1969, and re-elected in 1970, 1974 and 1975. [More…]
In view of the sudden and violent coup d’etat which has resulted in the overthrow of Thailand’s democratically elected Government, is the Minister aware that many Thai students now in Australia are deeply concerned that their lives or safety might be endangered if they were forced to return to Thailand? [More…]
The sole reference by the Government to this major upheaval in Thailand -one of our closest neighbours, one of the few democratically elected governments in Asia, and formerly an ally of the Liberal-Country Party Government in the Vietnam War- the only reference by this Government has been a facetious question by the member for Kennedy to the Minister for Defence designed to elicit a crude and tasteless joke at the expense of the people of Thailand. [More…]
On 1 1 November, the Minister for Labor and Immigration in the elected Government, Senator James McClelland, announced that government sponsored students from Vietnam and Cambodia were eligible for resident status whether or not they had completed their studies- a significant departure from previous practice. [More…]
Those people on superannuation, for instance, who had elected to treat their superannuation as capital for means test purposes, will in a great number of cases find that although they received a pension increase this year they will not receive a pension increase on subsequent occasions when pension increases take place. [More…]
Does the honourable member intend to complain about tens of thousands of pensioners in this country in receipt of superannuation who had elected under the existing provisions of the Social Services Act to capitalise on their superannuation payments so that they could get a more generous pension payment? [More…]
The events of 1 1 November intervened, there was a general election, and the Fraser Government was elected. [More…]
The actions that were taken last year by the Governor-General which brought about the downfall or sacking of an elected government have since 11 November split the Australian community and those who think that this is to the benefit of the Australian society are gravely mistaken. [More…]
It would seem that activity in the armed Services is certainly not going to burgeon forth, as the Minister for Defence would have had us believe before he was elected to his ministerial office, and as he has implied very heavily with those rather dramatic metaphors that he uses from time to time. [More…]
I have never forgotten, after I was first elected to this chamber in 1969, that the then Minister for Defence, the Honourable Malcolm Fraser, on 10 March 1970 brought down a very impressive paper called the Statement on Defence. [More…]
This point that the Australian Capital Territory is draining my electorate, giving back a certain amount but not anywhere near the cost to my electorate, is a very important one to me and to the 65 000 people who elected me. [More…]
Offices, the duties of which are full time in nature, may be elected by direct vote of the appropriate section of the rank and file. [More…]
Alternatively, the organisation may choose a one-tier collegiate system; that is, a system whereby a conference or council is elected by direct vote of the appropriate section of the rank and file membership and that conference or council elects from its members the fulltime officers. [More…]
In relation to offices, the duties of which are not full time in nature, the position whereby organisations may adopt a direct election, onetier or a multiple-tier system of collegiate election, for example, a system whereby the conference or council which is elected by direct vote may elect from its members another body which then elects from its members the part-time officers, will be restored. [More…]
I was elected a Minister on 18 December 1972. [More…]
On the one hand governments, especially elected governments in South-East Asia, nave tended to take the approach that from the point of view of the electorate they need to have prestige projects to show where their aid has been spent. [More…]
The Minister is going to a very considerable length to see that union officials are properly elected- democratically elected- by their unions. [More…]
Apparently the present Prime Minister had forgotten his comment of 2 years previously as to the considerable length to which the Labor Government was going to ensure that union officials were properly and democratically elected. [More…]
He was saying that militant union officials had to be stopped from dictating to their members and accordingly they must be elected by secret postal vote. [More…]
He and his fellow caretaker Ministers continually deplored the fact that the president of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union was elected in a ballot of less than 2 per cent of the union membership. [More…]
She had been elected under the collegiate system and was removed by the collegiate system. [More…]
Secondly, in so doing it has reneged on its stated pre-election intention of ensuring that union officials were elected by their members. [More…]
Perhaps if they are not all abashed by what their Government is doing, they can contemplate the prospect of explaining to Liberal and National Country Party members and supporters outside this House why it is that they are passing legislation which will allow the National President of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union to be elected in a ballot not of 1.8 per cent of the membership, as occurred last time, but in a ballot of 0.02 pier cent of the membership, if the AMWU decided to opt for the collegiate system which this legislation will now provide. [More…]
A further unsavoury aspect of this legislation which should also be mentioned is the change in the definition of ‘office ‘ which will enable unions to appoint persons to positions in the union which are similar to elected positions. [More…]
By having a onetier collegiate system of the type referred to by the honourable member for Gellibrand, State representatives would be elected by the rank and file people in those States and the representatives from those States would have the right and authority to elect their senior federal office bearers. [More…]
He will be elected not because he comes from Tasmania but because he is competent. [More…]
I think that he has simply tried to equate the collegiate system with the system under which senators are elected. [More…]
Does he think that people are elected as officials of unions simply because they stand for election? [More…]
He should know that people are elected as officials of trade unions because of their known capacity, a capacity that is known by the members of the union. [More…]
For these reasons, it is sheer hogwash to say for example, because a general secretary of a union is elected from New South Wales that he is elected from that State simply because there are more people in that State. [More…]
The brutal force of numbers or all sorts of persuasive means could be used to influence members of a college to change their vote so that it would not reflect the vote of those who elected them- their constituents. [More…]
They should not be muzzled by this Government in connivance with the National Civil Council so that all that is heard is the voice of those who are elected, those that they have elected. [More…]
Federal members of the Australian Labor Party are pre-selected under a system involving a body of 70 people at a preselection convention. [More…]
The 40 members of the Public Office Selection Committee are chosen from 100 members of the Public Office Selection Committee who in turn are elected by a State Conference of the Labor Party. [More…]
So between the membership of the Labor Party and the members who are pre-selected we have 3 tiers. [More…]
However, in the case of the 30 members of the Federal Electorate Assembly the situation is not so bad because those 30 people are at least selected by the branch members within a federal electorate area. [More…]
If we have a major portion of that body elected under a 3-tier collegiate system it ill becomes honourable members opposite to complain about this Government introducing the option of a one-tier collegiate system into the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
People who are pre-selected for public office are selected from the State convention which is made up of delegates from the branches and affiliated unions. [More…]
I also was pre-selected under a pre-selection system involving a one-tier collegiate structure and I have no complaints about that. [More…]
For the purposes of the application of the definition of “collegiate electoral system” in sub-section ( 1 ) in relation to an election for an office in an organisation, an electoral system that otherwise complies with that definition shall be deemed to comply with that definition notwithstanding that the persons comprising a body of persons by and from whom persons are elected at any stage subsequent to the first stage include persons (not exceeding in number 15 per centum of the total number of the body) who are the holders of offices entitling the holders to membership of that body (which may include the office to which the election relates) but are not members of that body by virtue of an election in accordance with that definition, being persons each of whom has held such an office (whether the one office or not) at all times since being elected to such an office under a collegiate electoral system, or a direct voting system, as defined in sub-section (1)’”. [More…]
In explanation of the second amendment, which is the substantive one, I point out to the Committee that in relation to the one-tier collegiate system of voting an unqualified requirement that persons elected by a college must also be elected from the members of that college can be disadvantageous to organisations. [More…]
Those office bearers must have been originally elected to those positions under a collegiate electoral system or a direct voting system as defined. [More…]
Moreover, they must have held office- not necessarily the same office- continuously since being first elected to office. [More…]
In the case of full-time officers the office bearers would be elected by and from a college, the members of which, excepting office bearers in the 15 per cent category must be elected directly by the appropriate sections of the rank and file. [More…]
Subject to the same qualifications, part-time officers must be elected under a collegiate system based on elections to a college by direct vote of the appropriate sections of the rank and file. [More…]
I understand that this amendment makes a substantial difference to the definition of ‘collegiate electoral system’ and will allow the operation of a system which will mean not only that some union officials will not be elected indirectly by the members but also that some union officials will not be elected by members even directly or indirectly. [More…]
The definition of collegiate electoral system’ in clause 3 of the Bill states that the officers of a union must be elected by and from the college and to get on to the college the officers have to have been voted for in a rank and file ballot in the first place. [More…]
It means that if officials of a union want to continue to be elected in order to become Federal secretary, or whatever, they have to be elected to the college and face a rank and file ballot. [More…]
The Government by this amendment is now allowing officers of unions to avoid having to be elected to the college. [More…]
They can just be added to the elected members of the college, as they are now in the Federated Clerks Union, the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association and other unions which have a collegiate system. [More…]
These officers, by being added to the elected members, form a college which then elects the officers, and so the officers become virtually selfperpetuating, particularly where they represent the difference between 2 factions. [More…]
As a result of allowing this amendment through, the 4 officers of a union will be allowed to be added to the elected members of the college and by that means to form a college for their re-election. [More…]
How far the Government is from the days when it was saying: ‘Look at this terrible Dick Scott, the National President of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, who is elected by only 1.8 per cent of the members’. [More…]
Now the Government intends to allow the AMWU, if it so wishes, to provide for a collegiate system in which Dick Scott and Laurie Carmichael, the Assistant Secretary and another bete noire of this Government, can just add themselves to the elected members of the Federal Council of the union for the purpose of determining a college and thereby having themselves re-elected. [More…]
I think it is the most astonishing thing of all time to come from this Government which went to the people and had as one of its biggest planks that it was going to democratise trade unions and ensure that union officials were elected in a way which meant that they had to face their members, which said that it would arm every union member with a ballot paper. [More…]
This application says that the rules of the Federated Clerks Union which currently allow for officers to be added to the elected members of the Federal Council for the purposes of forming an electoral college for the election of the officers, in fact are oppressive, unreasonable and unjust. [More…]
Further, I make the point that Mr Maynes has not been elected to the Federal Council for 22 years. [More…]
He is a perfect example of a person who, once having been elected to the Federal Council and having become the Federal President, is being perpetuated in that position, without having to face the rank and file since. [More…]
Within our society and within the world at large there are many different ways in which persons can be elected to office in organisations or even nations. [More…]
The only reservation about the legislation that I have is that there may be circumstances in which persons who have been elected by what I consider a sensible and reasonable compromise system all round, may not have their removal equated to the same criteria as their election. [More…]
The Labor Party seems to forget that before a person can become ah officer he must firstly be elected by the rank and file to the college. [More…]
But, in the main, a person has to be elected to the college by the rank and file. [More…]
He said that a member must first be elected to the college. [More…]
The Bill states that people elected to office shall be elected by and from the college. [More…]
It talks about people being elected by the college, 1 5 per cent of whom are eligible to stand but they are not elected by the rank and file who are eligible to vote. [More…]
If that means that 100 per cent of the college is elected by the rank and file then I am surprised that the honourable member, who I understand is a practitioner in law, does not understand the words and the language. [More…]
The honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) was wrong in his assumption that anyone could be appointed to a college without first being elected by the rank and file members of the union. [More…]
I believe that the office bearers of a trade union should be elected and that the rank and file members of the union should have an influence on the office bearers of the union. [More…]
The unbelievable system the Government is introducing means that 1 5 per cent of the collegiate need no longer be elected by the rank and file after they have been elected once. [More…]
We can see that in some of those who have been elected to this Parliament. [More…]
Of that number, 15 members will not need to be elected. [More…]
It is quite clear that, under the collegiate system, rank and file members have the prime say, just as they have the prime say in the selection of those who are elected to either side of this Parliament. [More…]
The Government is going to introduce a system whereby, as the honourable member for Wilmot (Mr Burr) has indicated, the office holders who will sit under the collegiate system and who were only elected in the first place will be able to perpetrate their position time and again with a 1 5 per cent start under the collegiate system. [More…]
They were the unions that elected their top office bearers by the collegiate system. [More…]
The honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) was terribly critical of the collegiate system and yet he was elected by the collegiate system as an official of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
He was also elected by the collegiate system as Federal President of the Electrical Trades Union. [More…]
The clerks and the journalists have elected not to participate in the combined unions committee. [More…]
The Premiers Conference would not have agreed to such a course after 1 May, when of course the Wran Government was elected in New South Wales. [More…]
In the case of the Australian Labor Party, this is particularly important because, as my colleague interjects, its members in the Parliament are bound by the Party discipline and by policy laid down not by elected members of Parliament but by machine men outside whose credentials are quite unknown to the voting public. [More…]
A people’s convention be elected to recast the Federal Constitution to provide for the sumpremacy of the national Parliament, the abolition of State parliaments and the creation of provincial councils. [More…]
No action whatsoever was taken until the Whitlam Labor Government was elected. [More…]
Before Labor was elected in 1972 there was no national community health program. [More…]
They did not exist before the Labor Government was elected. [More…]
By the same token, we did not see the Regional Employment and Development scheme before the Labor Party was elected. [More…]
I was disappointed to note that the composition of the Australian Broadcasting Commission will require representation from each of the States and hence by implication I fear may exclude a Commissioner elected by the ABC staff. [More…]
So if that issue is still in the balance I would urge the Government to continue to have one of the Commissioners elected by the ABC staff. [More…]
When this Government was elected on 13 December last, Australia was in bad shape. [More…]
I think that we should look for the best businessmen we can get for our marketing boards and not put a man on a marketing board because he is a producer, although, of course, the producers should have a greater say in who is to be elected to these marketing boards. [More…]
In particular, it is determined to remove the person democratically elected by the staff of the ABC- Mr Marius Webb. [More…]
This was the motivation of the Labor Government in appointing to the ABC someone elected by the staff of the ABC. [More…]
The staff did not elect a person to the Commission; it merely elected someone whom it then proposed to the then Government. [More…]
While we are talking about this proposition, I think the House should be made fully aware that it was not the Senate that the people of Australia elected that was voting on this issue last year. [More…]
-It was not the Senate that the people elected. [More…]
The point I want to make is this: The Senate that refused to consider Supply was not the Senate that was elected by the Australian people. [More…]
There were 2 members of the Senate at that time who had been appointed by State parliamentsquite improperly- to replace 2 elected Australian Labor Party senators, one of whom had died. [More…]
The Parties of honourable members opposite conspired to rig the Senate by stacking it with people who could not get elected and who could not get the votes of the Australian people and utilised the votes of those people who were dishonestly appointed by State governmentshonourable members opposite do not know much about honesty- in order to acquire the numbers to defeat an elected government. [More…]
The people elected a Senate of certain numbers. [More…]
Honourable members opposite believe that is honest and decent for the people who are elected to be replaced by their friends. [More…]
We took our stand on 11 November on a simple issue: Is a government with a majority in a democratically elected House of Representatives to be allowed to govern, or is it not? [More…]
The defence of the Senate’s action rests on the proposition that the Senate is a popularly elected House and, except in certain limited matters specified in the Constitution, enjoys equal powers with the House of Representatives. [More…]
It is a parody of democracy to assert that a govenment must be responsible to a chamber elected on a grossly unequal system of representation; a chamber whose numbers can be varied, and have indeed been varied, by State Premiers without regard to the electors’ will; whose members at some times have been chosen 3 years or 6 years before the members of this House, and who can bring about an election for the House of Representatives without having to face an election themselves. [More…]
What the Liberals have done is to damage the whole fabric of trust between the electors and elected governments. [More…]
The people of Australia are saying: ‘We elected a Government for 3 years which was then denied the opportunity to rule’. [More…]
They thought they had elected a Parliament which meant something. [More…]
This is the sort of program for which I believe the Australian people elected the Government that we have. [More…]
I was elected to this Parliament 3 times in 3 years. [More…]
If this is lost it will be to the shame of the Federal Government, and the newly elected State Government. [More…]
If this were so a government fearful of the judgment of the people could refuse to advise that an election be held and remain in office longer than the maximum period for which the House of Representatives is elected. [More…]
Does the Prime Minister view the situation in Victoria concerning the Newport power station as a clear challenge to the right of an elected government to make decisions affecting the whole community? [More…]
Will the Prime Minister take action complementary to that taken by the Victorian Government by stopping work on all possible federal building contracts until the members of construction unions force their leaders to come to their senses and stop trying to usurp the role of the elected Government? [More…]
The legislation introduced by the Government makes it essential for elected officials of unions to be elected by secret postal ballot - [More…]
Living in my electorate 7 days a week, which is not the experience of most other members of the Parliament, keeps me close to the people who elected me. [More…]
When this Government was elected to office it made a lot of promises, particularly in the area of Gosford- Wyong which I represent. [More…]
It is denying most of the promises on which it was elected only 12 months ago. [More…]
If the honourable member for the Northern Territory reflects he will recall that the late Labor Government assumed that having been elected in May 1974, the next election would be in May 1977. [More…]
-I suppose the honourable member for Swan (Mr Martyr) was elected to this place because the people in Western Australia - [More…]
Only on two or 3 occasions since I was elected to this House has legislation of this order been brought in and there have been requests for it to be rushed through. [More…]
Australian Labor Party-New South Wales branch, Branch officers elected; meetings arranged for 19S0; [More…]
Of those referred to in part (7), how many fled their country following the violent overthrow of the democratically elected Allende Government in 1 974. [More…]
It could also weaken his position within his own coalition party, particularly with uneasy back benchers who were elected for the first time to office last year on the claim that a Fraser Government would restore the economy, reduce inflation and not create unemployment. [More…]
The only authority which has a mandate to make policy on the export of uranium is the democratically elected Parliament. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Uren), who spoke tonight, even advocated taking the decision-making away from the elected Parliament and placing it outside in the hands of some unnamed and unknown group. [More…]
There has already been at least 2 years’ public debate on this matter and it is now time for the elected Parliament to make its decision. [More…]
It is to put back the day when the elected Parliament of Australia must make a decision. [More…]
Despite what the recently elected President may say, he may well need to increase nuclear capacity to at least 9 per cent. [More…]
It was the people coming onto the streets in the United States of America, in Britain and other countries around the world and questioning the right of those who had been elected to government to take decisions and the morality of those decisions that forced governments as powerful as the Government of the United States to withdraw its troops from Vietnam. [More…]
I am in a position to know because I regularly conferred with members of the police forces of the different States of the Commonwealth before I was elected to this Parliament. [More…]
As far as monetary policy is concerned, I think the activities and actions of the Government since it was elected to office will reflect the fact that the monetary policy has been subject to flexible adjustment as circumstances have changed during that period. [More…]
One identity is that of being elected to the Parliament for the political party for which he stands. [More…]
If I am to be re-elected to this Parliament, it will be as a Liberal and I will be contested by the honourable gentleman’s Party. [More…]
I am a person occupying a position in this Parliament, having been elected to it by members of the House. [More…]
It was a 10-year birthday party for those who were elected in 1966. [More…]
It is interesting to note, when one looks at the bitterness which has existed there and which, to some extent, still exists there, why militants or communists are elected by the men to fill positions. [More…]
Surely the honourable member is not suggesting other than that governments are elected to make decisions. [More…]
I refer to the remarks that he made about public servants being elected to parliaments. [More…]
I was a member of the Victorian teaching service when I was elected to this Parliament. [More…]
I would like to refer to the history of a member of the Victorian teaching service who was elected to the Victorian Parliament in 1947 or 1948, He was a member of a Labor government. [More…]
Subsequently in 1952 a Labor government was returned and it set to work to change the legislation so that people who were elected to the Victorian Parliament from the Victorian Public Service would be able to return to their jobs with all rights reserved. [More…]
Subsequently, just before I was elected to this Parliament, the Act was changed- as a matter of fact it was a good piece of behaviour by a Liberal government- so that people elected to the Australian Parliament would be able to return to their jobs up to a period of 9 years after their election with all their rights reserved. [More…]
I know that this was a substantial piece of security for people such as myself, even elected for seats such as mine. [More…]
So I suggest to the Ministry that it immediately examines the situation in Victoria and places in the Australian Public Service Act, the provisions which permit members of the Public Service elected to a parliament to be able to return to the Public Service upon defeat or retirement with their rights reserved. [More…]
He said a great deal about the Australian Apple and Pear Corporation, about who was on it, what they were going to do and how they were appointed and not elected. [More…]
That scapegoat is the elected trade union leadership of Australia. [More…]
Despite with the sleight of hand men, the manipulators of truth on the other side, may say, its leadership is democratically elected. [More…]
Is that an attempt to take over from the elected Government? [More…]
It is for the Government, elected as it has been and responsible to the electorate, to make the final decision and to accept the responsibility. [More…]
They concentrated on a few unions, such as the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, and said that the leaders were unrepresentative of their unions because they were elected by a very small proportion of the membership. [More…]
The Government then passed legislation to allow union officials to be elected by an amazingly small proportion of their union membership. [More…]
As the constitutionally elected, government of the people of Australia it is our responsibility and ours alone to lay down the guidelines for the economic development of this nation-economic development which at this stage has faltered. [More…]
When the ordinary people of Australia cannot take a train, a bus or a hydrofoil, they get upset and say to the Government: ‘You are the elected government. [More…]
As I pointed out, he was elected by 1.1 per cent of the union membership. [More…]
We were elected to protect the interests of all Australians- trade unionists and non-trade unionists alike. [More…]
What of government rights having been elected on a platform which the people accepted? [More…]
I question their right to speak when so many of them have not been elected by an acceptable democratic process. [More…]
It was not up to me to direct the ABC staff to elect someone from Tasmania and it chose and elected someone from New South Wales, a male. [More…]
To keep faith with our promise I appointed the person elected by the staff to the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
We would have gladly accepted an amendment that one of the members be elected by the staff, but the Government has not chosen to do so. [More…]
Webb was elected by an insignificant vote. [More…]
It is a transcript of an interview with Mr Marius Webb, the staff elected Commissioner of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, at the eighth interstate executive meeting of the ABC Staff Association in Sydney on 18 November 1975. [More…]
Until last Friday the Government had not denied speculation that staff elected Commissioner Marius Webb would not be allowed to complete his full term. [More…]
He was elected from 30 candidates nominated from all ABC unions. [More…]
An ethnic broadcasting council should be established in each State, with some representatives from the ABC, but the majority should be elected from each of the community broadcasting committees. [More…]
We have done a lot of things that we promised for the primary producer since we were elected. [More…]
We can be thankful for the good sense of members of the Opposition who elected the honourable member for Blaxland to the front bench and appreciate the good sense that he now displays in that position which is in contrast with the position he adopted at the coat tails of the honourable member for Cunningham. [More…]
In proposed section 31(1), at the end of proposed paragraph (b) add the following words: “of whom one shall be the elected representative of the Australian Broadcasting Commission staff”. [More…]
Mr Marius Webb was elected by the ABC staff as its representative on the ABC. [More…]
I am absolutely staggered that provision for a staff elected commissioner is not to be included in this legislation. [More…]
One problem is that representation on a commission or a board of directors by, say, an elected representative of the staff or employees of an organisation can mean mere tokenism. [More…]
I know he is an appointed member and was not elected by the staff. [More…]
It seems to me that the present staff elected commissioner is the only person who is, in some sense, responsible to an outside constituency to whom he reports. [More…]
So, that is one problem, I ask: If we have commissioners who are in some sense representative of outside bodies, do we have an elected representative of the consumers- Auntie ‘s Nieces and Nephews or whatever organisation we might have? [More…]
We have seen how the present incumbent, the elected staff representative, in fact reports to his constituency. [More…]
Nonetheless I think it would be a mistake to write into the legislation a provision requiring a staff elected representative on the Commission. [More…]
It is a very strange mixture If one had to specify the strangest amendment I suppose it would be that which proposes that a commissioner should be elected from amongst the staff. [More…]
He was elected from more than 30 candidates from all the ABC unions. [More…]
There was a recent staff meeting of 2000 ABC employees who reconfirmed their commitment to a staff-elected commissioner. [More…]
He ought to stand to see whether he can be elected by the staff. [More…]
I spoke to that Opposition amendment which deals with the appointment of an elected representative of the Australian Broadcasting Commission staff and pointed out that, while there had not been previous provision for this, it had been something that a previous Minister had allowed. [More…]
I do not accept that they are any substitute for the worker or staff participation that we would get with a commissioner elected from the staff of the ABC. [More…]
I oppose the amendment but in doing so I want to make it quite clear- and I think it is well known in this place and outside- that I have fought and worked for the last 2 months to retain on the Australian Broadcasting Commission the duly elected commissioner elected by a vote of the Australian Broadcasting Commission Staff Association. [More…]
I have never spoken one word to him, but he is the duly elected representative of the ABC Staff Association. [More…]
It need not necessarily be a separately elected commissioner. [More…]
I understand that Mr Webb, who was elected, is paid as a commissioner and as a staff member of the ABC. [More…]
The Government rejects as unnecessary the amendment moved by the Opposition in relation to a staff elected commissioner. [More…]
As a result, each meeting elected 3 representatives to form a protem committee which was to consider ways and means of establishing a Confederation of Australian Sport and then to convene a further meeting to discuss the matter. [More…]
The fact that the Marxist orientated government was democratically elected whereas the present group of ruling thugs was not, does not concern him or any of the sabre-rattling individuals on that side of the House. [More…]
Did the Government receive any information on a proposed overthrow of the elected Government from the United States Government or its agents. [More…]
In 1967, he became Minister for Industrial Development and Company Affairs and, 3 years later, Food Minister which he remained until elected President in August 1 974. [More…]
When the Whitiam Government was elected in December 1972 there were 139,000 people out of work. [More…]
As a result, the voters elected a Government which is dedicated to increasing the freedom of the individual and the respect of his basic rights as an individual, while at the same time exercising its responsibility as a Government to protect and to assist those in our community who cannot care adequately for themselves. [More…]
The Bill gives a degree of power to the Chairman which has never been envisaged by any elected government. [More…]
And the political influence will reside not with elected politicians but with permanent heads who already have power to appoint to all positions below the First Division. [More…]
-I cannot see the relevance of that interjection from my friend because the man has been democratically elected to the Parliament by the people. [More…]
If you are going to tell me that the people of the electorate of Ballaarat should not have elected Jim Short simply because he came out of the Treasury I would suggest that argument is of the highest absurdity. [More…]
People who were not responsible, were not elected and were not subject to recall by the people were given power and they abused that power tremendously. [More…]
So I do not think that anybody should seriously consider the proposition that people who are not elected and who are not subject to recall should be given great powers in government. [More…]
It is that this Bill strikes at a basic democratic aspect of our government and our Parliament in the handing over of power from the Parliament to public servants- at the handing over of power from elected people, people who are subject to recall, to people who are appointed. [More…]
I know that elected people- Ministers in governments- cannot take responsibility for every decision that is made right down the line. [More…]
They tended to keep the power in the hands of the Parliament- in the hands of the Government and in the hands of the elected people. [More…]
This Bill tends to take the power out of the hands of the elected Parliament and put it in the hands of public servants. [More…]
The provisions of the Bill take away some of the responsibility of elected people and give it to appointed people who are not responsible in the sense that they are not subject to recall. [More…]
I repeat that I think all members of this House should be very much aware that this Bill in fact represents an erosion of the power of the elected people, hands much more power than is necessary over to appointed permanent heads and gives them the opportunity of reinforcing their entrenched position within the bureaucracy. [More…]
But when the Liberals then elected a Liberal Prime Minister, that person would not be of the same political party as the National Country Party Prime Minister. [More…]
The House of Representatives is elected for a period of 3 years subject to earlier dissolution by the Governor-General. [More…]
The Senate is a continuing body with senators elected for 6-year terms and it cannot be dissolved except in the event of a double dissolution. [More…]
The other deficiency relates to persons who are elected as senators, but who have died, resigned or become disqualified before the commencement of their terms of service. [More…]
That this Convention affirms the principle that a casual vacancy in the Senate which occurs by reason of the death of a Senator or the disqualification or resignation of a Senator caused by bona fide illness or incapacity, should, in order to maintain the principle of proportional representation and the wishes of the people of the State at the relevant Senate election, be filled by a member of the same political party as the Senator whose vacancy is to be filled, but in reaffirming this principle the Convention recommends that the Constitution be amended to provide that the person elected by the Houses of Parliament of the State should hold office for the balance of the term of the Senator whose place he is taking. [More…]
The replacement of senators who were elected as independents will not be affected. [More…]
An almost identical Bill was passed twice by the House of Representatives in the Parliament elected in 1972 and thus the proposal was able to be submitted and was submitted to the electors in May 1974. [More…]
It again was passed twice by the House of Representatives elected in 1974. [More…]
The Constitution says that elections for the Senate can be held at any time within 12 months before the elected senators take office. [More…]
It is clear, from the batch of Bills that we are debating, that it is likely that the Northern Territory, when it becomes a State, will have a functionary named a Governor, either appointed or elected. [More…]
To put the matter on its proper basis, the Labor Party basis, is it not intelligent and proper that a Senate should be elected at the same time as a House of Representatives? [More…]
The motivation of the people when they cast their votes for the election for a House of Representatives election in accordance with the policies expressed by political parties would also flow to the Senate candidates being elected at the same time. [More…]
We would not then have the silly situation of senators being elected strictly to try to get rid of a government and being in no way responsible for their action. [More…]
What utter nonsense to say in the first instance that senators should be elected by the people and then to suggest that people will be misled about whom they vote for on that basis. [More…]
No senator would ever be a rubber stamp, nor should he be, but it is appropriate that he should be indicative of the type of person elected at the same time as a government was elected. [More…]
There is only one slight variation, and that is that in the case of a casual vacancy occurring as a result of a person elected to the House of Assembly in Tasmania dying, resigning or being unable to hold his seat, his votes are in fact recounted and the next person who would have been elected on his preferences takes office. [More…]
The Northern Territorians have been asking for the right to vote at referendums since as long ago as 1965 when they did not even have a fully elected Legislative Council, as it then was. [More…]
Is there any merit in senators being elected in May and members of the House of Representatives elected in December? [More…]
Why should the senators not face the music at the same time as the members of the House of Representatives and why should the people of Australia not make a decision which will have the effect of putting into the Parliament contemporary representatives- I emphasise the word ‘contemporary’- elected on precisely the same mandate on precisely the same day? [More…]
The question would arise as to whether the State executive of the Party whose endorsement he bore when he was elected should have the right to nominate someone to succeed him or whether the State executive of the new Party which was formed as a result of the split should be able to nominate someone to succeed him. [More…]
If 6 senators were to be elected in Victoria the chances are that the Australian Labor Party, if it did not win three of the long term vacancies, could not be prevented from winning two of the long term vacancies, with its third seat being the short term vacancy. [More…]
I do not know what would happen in the case of Senator Hall, for example, who was elected to the Parliament representing a party called the Liberal Movement, which has in a sense disbanded and yet in a sense has not. [More…]
If not, would the Parliament of Tasmania have the right to appoint as a successor to Senator Townley a representative from the party which had the largest number of votes at the election at which Senator Townley was elected? [More…]
In general, with the exception of the Constitution Alteration (Retirement of Judges) Bill, the other 3 Bills deal largely with this Parliament and the manner in which it is elected. [More…]
They are concerned with when and how senators are elected and maintained in office. [More…]
I think it is ludicrous to suggest that the standing of a House of parliament depends on the day on which it is elected. [More…]
Does anyone suggest that the Senate of the United States of America is a less important House because it is elected on the same day as the House of Representatives? [More…]
Does anyone suggest that State parliaments in the United States are less important in their constitutional structure or that they perform their functions less effectively because they are also elected on the same day as the Congress? [More…]
Having assumed that power the Senate is entitled to expect that it will be elected at the same time as the chamber in which governments are formed, and therefore reflect the will and the wish of the elector on the occasion when a government is chosen. [More…]
There has been no suggestion that the senators elected on those occasions were in any way inferior to those who were elected on separate occasions. [More…]
There is reason to advance the argument that the persons chosen to be senators on occasions when the 2 Houses have been elected together have been chosen on a more objective basis and that a broader perspective of choice on national policies is exercised even though people might primarily be electing a government in the House of Representatives. [More…]
In my memory none has been able to whip up enthusiasm in the community for reasons why Senator A should be elected instead of Senator B. [More…]
In one recent Senate election an independent senator was elected from Western Australia on a platform to abolish estate duties. [More…]
In South Australia a candidate was very nearly elected on an education platform. [More…]
If both houses have the power to form governments, when the electorate expresses its opinion both Houses should be elected at the same time. [More…]
The best representation would come about- this is a personal view- if those sections of the Constitution which provide for 2 Houses were removed and proportionally elected members sat in this House with members elected under the House of Representatives procedures. [More…]
Because senators are elected for long terms on a proportional basis a problem arises when a vacancy occurs. [More…]
I think it was in 1964 that the late Senator Poulter was elected to represent Queensland. [More…]
Therefore a casual vacancy was created to replace a senator elected for a 6-year term. [More…]
The seat held by the senator filling the casual vacancy would be lost and there would be a distortion of proportional representation for the remainder of that 6-year period because a senator who would not have een elected on a quota system from one party is elected. [More…]
I think Senator Greenwood was elected. [More…]
It acts to the disadvantage of the Labor Party in this instance because in Victoria at an election due 6 senators would be elected, four of whom would be from the Liberal and National Country Parties. [More…]
Arising out of that and out of the death of Senator Cohen during that election, Senator Brown subsequently contested the election for senators at which six were elected. [More…]
As a retiring appointed senator because he was elected further up the list than sixth he lost his seat. [More…]
I suggest that there is no evidence at all, and I hope that the present senators would support me, that they are m any way inferior or constitute in total an inferior Senate than those senators who were elected at single Senate elections in 1964, 1967 and 1970. [More…]
Under our system irrespective of anything else the Prime Minister himself, the same as any other member of this House, must appear before the electors and be elected as an individual before he becomes Prime Minister of this country. [More…]
Tasmania has large numbers of elected people. [More…]
I take this opportunity of saying what a high regard I have for the wise and learned ruling that was given in this House yesterday by the Speaker in which he confirmed the status of myself and other elected Territorial representatives in this House. [More…]
I must commend the Speaker on the very wise ruling he made yesterday and express our appreciation for it, even though we have been elected by people and we represent people who are regarded by the High Court as something less than Australian citizens. [More…]
I do not want to refer to particular senators, but under the proposal if the seat of an independent candidate elected by the people is subsequently vacated, the Government or Parliament of the State he represented is responsible for filling his vacancy. [More…]
In the case of a senator who changes his party the State parliament would choose a candidate from the Party to which the ex-senator belonged when he was elected. [More…]
Not many years after I was first elected to this chamber in 1 960 there was a debate on a Bill which first dealt with restrictive trade practices. [More…]
This means that the State will be regarded as one division and the members, to the number as determined, will be elected for that one division. [More…]
The reason they do not worry about the people outside the metropolitan areas is that so many of their members are elected in the metropolitan areas. [More…]
Those who are elected outside such areas do not have an opportunity to influence decisions to the extent that I feel they probably would influence them if they had the numbers to do it. [More…]
That is, in the ordinary life of a Parliament there has to be a distribution of a State where the Constitution shows that that State is entitled to more or fewer divisions than it had at the time that Parliament was elected. [More…]
I would hope there could be no situation in which such an election could take place because, no matter how it was conducted, it would be a distortion of the process by which this House is normally elected or expected to be elected. [More…]
This means that the State will be regarded as one division and the members, to the number as determined, will be elected for that one division. [More…]
If they were divided into 2 electorates, that could be done by having half the population in each and having 3 senators elected from each part. [More…]
In the case of Queensland, 3 senators could come from, say, the north and 3 senators could be elected from the southern part of the State. [More…]
-When the Fraser Government was elected to office at the end of 1975 it was elected on the basis of various promises made to the Australian people, one of which was to support wage indexation. [More…]
If it had been put forward at the last election honourable members opposite would not have got within a cooee of being elected as a government. [More…]
If Her Majesty the Queen had known that more than 2 million of her subjects in this country were near or below the poverty level she would have been absolutely disgusted to think that her elected representatives in Parliament were parties to this kind of extravagance. [More…]
Members of the Opposition wish to place on record that the Labor Government was elected to promote the welfare aspects of our society. [More…]
The Senate is an undemocratic institution in the sense that it is not elected directly by the people on an electorate basis. [More…]
It is elected on the basis of proportional representation and on the basis of the States. [More…]
We can name the crooks and we can prevent them from continually being re-elected to companies. [More…]
For the first time in a quarter of a century normally conservative Australians elected a socialist government. [More…]
I was interested in his early comments in which he stated that the former Labor Government was elected in December 1972 because of the appeal of its welfare program. [More…]
Whilst one can understand that people will support a welfare program, I assure him that one of the reasons that his Government was elected in December 1972 was that it had been out of office for 23 years and the Australian people had forgotten what it would mean to have a profligate socialist government on the treasury benches. [More…]
He was given the prime ministership of this country without a majority in the House of Representatives and elected to government to do as I said, that is, to reduce inflation and unemployment, to abolish rural proverty and to start some developmental projects in this country. [More…]
The community will not tolerate these broken promises of and lack of performance by the Government, particularly when it was elected on the basis of those promises. [More…]
In March last year the Government elected to make a public issue on the Swiss franc market. [More…]
How could we ever trust this Government, the Fraser Government, which was elected by deceit and has been a government of deceit ever since? [More…]
I remind the honourable member that in this chamber I crawled down under the desk in front of which I now sit when the Prime Minister of this country, the Right Honourable William McMahon, came in after he had been elected as Leader of the Liberal Party and magnanimously gave 50c a week increase to the pensioners. [More…]
We have witnessed the dismal performance of the honourable member for Werriwa who could not get a seconder in the Caucus for his latest move to be elected to something longer term than a temporary leadership. [More…]
When I was first elected to the Parliament Mr Harold Holt was the Leader. [More…]
At the moment, not much more than a year after their Government was elected it is 350 000- an increase of 50 per cent in not much more than a year. [More…]
When I was in Israel I was able to meet and have talks with the communist mayor of Nazareth- a man who was elected in free elections but who is opposed to many of the things Israel has done, and he says so. [More…]
The mayor of Nablus is a pro-PLO mayor elected in free elections. [More…]
I reiterate my public advice to Population Services International that it would not be wise to pre-empt the debate and final decisions of the elected representatives of Canberra in the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
We have these Upper Houses around Australia, one of which is not even elected by the people. [More…]
They are Upper Houses where the Labor Party receives a majority of votes at the elections but can get only four out of fifteen people elected. [More…]
The Country Party loves the system because it means that these goats from Hume and Riverina are elected by 20 000 or 30 000 fewer voters than their colleagues from the Liberal Party who represent seats in the metropolitan area. [More…]
The people were asked whether they believed that all parliaments in Australia should be elected directly by the people, whether they believed all Australians were entitled to equal representation in national and State parliaments, whether they believed it was wrong for one Federal electorate to contain twice as many people as another, and whether they believed it was wrong that one State House of Parliament was not elected directly by the people. [More…]
He can be selected by a government. [More…]
He can be elected by members of Parliament, as was the case in France up until 1962. [More…]
He can be elected by the people, as is the President of the United States of America, and as is now the French President. [More…]
The crown provides a link between the countries of the Commonwealth which could not be as well, if at all, provided by an elected President. [More…]
Is Parliament a serious debating forum where Cabinet may rule but with some sort of regard for the elected representatives on both sides? [More…]
I refer to the sacking of an elected government. [More…]
Prior to the election in 1975 the present Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) who was then the shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs sent telegrams to the various Aboriginal communities throughout Australia saying that they had nothing to worry about if a Liberal Government were elected to power. [More…]
I am hearing from one of the prime examples of the flotsam that came in at the last election, who is spouting again the slogans on which they were elected. [More…]
We have decided as a government, and quite rightly so, that matters relating to the Australian Capital Territory, matters that have great social consequence and matters that have wide-ranging consequences for the people in this community will be debated, discussed and decided by those people who were elected by the local community. [More…]
Before 1972 we took the very old fashioned and traditional view that governments had rights and prerogatives which were the property of the elected government. [More…]
But under this Bill, once the overthrow had taken place it would become legal for persons to go to Chile to fight against the forces of the former government which had been elected. [More…]
But it would be quite illegal for persons to go to that country ana fight for what was the properly elected government before a seizure of power took place. [More…]
Recently in Thailand we saw almost the same situation where an elected government was overthrown by the armed forces- not the first, I must say, in that country- and overnight a government was established. [More…]
We had a situation where the elected government having been overthrown, it would be illegal to seek to support that elected government’s restoration to the position to which the people had elected it. [More…]
So they were lacking in foresight if they ever thought that people elected from the Territories would always be pro-Labor, or what we might describe as being anti the LiberalNational Country Party coalition. [More…]
It would mean that elected representatives would probably not have a job. [More…]
So the only real power that the people of the Australian Capital Territory have is through their elected representatives in this Parliament. [More…]
I have heard people say that we are over-represented because we have 2 members of the House of Representatives, 2 senators and 18 elected members of the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
There is one elected representative in Canberra for approximately every 6000 electors or people on the electoral roll. [More…]
The smallest degree of representation is to be found in New South Wales which has one elected person for every 1182 electors. [More…]
Tasmania has one elected representative for every 480 electors. [More…]
Western Australia has one elected representative for every 387 electors. [More…]
As I said, the position here is that we have one elected representative for every 6000 electors. [More…]
Yet this man from Western Australia wants to deprive us even of that amount of representation, when in his State there is one elected representative for every 387 electors. [More…]
In Queensland- our friend, the honourable member for Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron) should listen to this- there is one elected person for every 791 electors. [More…]
I repeat that we have one elected representative for almost every 6000 electors. [More…]
When I was elected to this place in 1966 it was on a platform which included full voting rights for the people of the Northern Territory. [More…]
-He would be elected, but his professional skills might not be as obvious. [More…]
Has the honourable gentleman seen a report that a law lecturer in Western Australia is of the opinion that the complement of the New South Wales and South Australian members to this House was unconstitutionally elected at the general election and that he is proposing to ask the High Court to declare those members’ election void and to order new elections in those States in elections to be held at large? [More…]
When he was a member of the Opposition, the hearings had to take place immediately but since this Government has been elected it has taken 16 months to refer the matter. [More…]
They were elected to government on a lot of specious promises. [More…]
Consequently, it probably made good political sense for the Liberal and Country Parties, which had then not been elected to government, to support a much greater measure of assistance by way of overseas aid to the developing countries. [More…]
That is why we are here and that is why the Australian people elected us. [More…]
Of course he eventually got elected to leadership, perhaps on that issue more than any other, only to do another somersault as we witness in this latest announcement. [More…]
Yes, they are elected by the people and they disagree with the actions which are being taken by this Government in destroying the independent Bureau of Roads by failing to define its structure. [More…]
The councillors are democratically elected and they are saying to the Government: ‘What you are doing is atrocious’. [More…]
That is the opinion of those democratically elected conservative councillors in my area where, fortunately, the people have the good sense to return Australian Labor Party members in both the State and Federal Parliaments. [More…]
So we have come a long way between 1 965, when the first Labor Government for 33 years was elected, and today when we would hope the final attempt by those who want to continue with the old, unjust laws has come to an end. [More…]
I hope that all the people in South Australia will now accept that it is right to have one vote one value in the House of Assembly and that it is right and correct in a bicameral system that the Legislative Council itself be elected on the most just terms. [More…]
The elected leaders of the people are the ones who run this country in the elected leadership of this Government and of the States. [More…]
I think that this Government has stressed a little too much the fact that it was elected in order to solve the economic problems of the day. [More…]
When the time does come after the receipt of the second Fox report, the elected Government will make a decision on whether or not we will mine and process our uranium. [More…]
I submit that this elected Parliament is the only competent body to make such a decision. [More…]
It was someone who is not part of this parliamentary process, someone who is not elected by the Australian people. [More…]
They believe that they have some divine right to be able to tell the Australian people what it is they should or should not have without having the responsibility of going to the polls every 3 years as a democratically elected government must do. [More…]
They do not have any interest in the people of Australia or in economic recovery and they are prepared to undermine any elected government as long as it suits their own political persuasion. [More…]
The BUI allows former members of the New South Wales teaching service who were teaching in the Australian Capital Territory technical institutions in 1976 and who elected to join the Commonwealth Teaching Service after 31 December 1976 and before 1 April 1977 to preserve their long service leave conditions that applied under State legislation in force immediately prior to their joining the Commonwealth Teaching Service and to treat future teaching service as if it were State service for the purposes of that legislation. [More…]
-I think that the Army’s efficiency went up very greatly when the honourable member was elected to this Parliament. [More…]
The exporters’ representative and the producer representatives are to be selected from a panel of names which will flow from 2 consultative groups- one representing the meat trade generally, that is, exporters, processors and abattoirs, and the other being the producers’ consultative group. [More…]
It is envisaged that the producers’ consultative group will consist of 2 representatives from each State elected from producers in those States. [More…]
Since I was elected to Parliament some 5 years ago I have witnessed many important initiatives and innovations of our Federal governments. [More…]
I know that is difficult for a Labor member from the State of New South Wales to comprehend and appreciate because the State Government of New South Wales soon after it was elected, increased the rents on more than 50 000 Housing Commission homes. [More…]
The statement quite clearly says that the only persons entitled to express opposition to Government policies or Government actions are the elected members of Parliament. [More…]
In a democratic society governments are elected and, depending upon their maintenance of a majority in the Parliament, they govern. [More…]
Honourable members opposite stand up in this House and speak about the irresponsibility of the people who are elected by the members of their union to manage the affairs of their union and to formulate the policy of their union. [More…]
But what a scathing indictment of the people who sit behind him and who elected him to the position of Deputy Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
The cable made it clear that the CIA was making what was described, in the jargon of the trade, as an ‘official demarche on a service to service link’- in other words, without informing the elected Government of Australia. [More…]
All of them were elected officers of the AWU and highly respected members of the ALP. [More…]
That remark was too significant to ignore because it indicated that there had been a conspiracy to remove the democratically elected officials of the South Ausralian branch of the AWU. [More…]
Certainly the protection of the government elected by the people of Australia is something about which this Parliament has a right to know and in which it has a right to be involved. [More…]
It certainly happened in Cambodia, and there is at least a suspicion that Australian security operatives were involved in the overthrow of Sihanouk, which ultimately led to the overthrow of any elected government in that country. [More…]
The honourable member for Macarthur was elected on 13 December 1975. [More…]
One thing that is important to understand is this: Section 44 of the Constitution, in dealing with people who shall be incapable of being chosen- that is chosen or elected to this Houserefers in the relevant part to a person who is an undischarged bankrupt or who is insolvent. [More…]
It is important first of all to note that if a person had taken the benefit prior to his becoming a member- that is to say, at a time prior to his electionthe fact that he had entered into a deed of arrangement in the strict sense to which I will refer subsequently, would not preclude him from being elected because section 44 (iii) refers to an undischarged bankrupt or insolvent. [More…]
This is becoming a vital issue because no matter which party is in power, no matter which group has been elected via the political process, there are some groups in our society holding key positions who are determined to make political decisions on behalf of the whole community without reference to and often in defiance of the parliamentary process. [More…]
Yet this group of union militants considers it has the right to block the decision of the Government overwhelmingly elected by the people of Victoria. [More…]
It is the Parliament, the body elected directly by the people of Australia, that should make decisions relating to the Government of the nation, not groups of unionists. [More…]
It continues its attempts to intimidate elected governments, allegedly on behalf of the people. [More…]
He knows as well as every other member of this House that the proposal to hold referendums is a dereliction of his duty and the duty of the Government, which was elected to govern. [More…]
It is an opportunity for him and the fellow union bashers who sit with him to stand up and use the old, tired, worn-out phrases about political strikes, militant unions and communist union secretaries and to ignore all the time the fact that union leaders are elected by union members and, I might add, are elected to act in the best interests of those members, and without exception that is the case in Australia. [More…]
The Queensland Government was elected by a popular vote of 29 per cent of the people. [More…]
Those discussions went on right up to early 1975, when the prize idiot of New South Wales, Tom Lewis, was elected Premier of that State. [More…]
The same applied in Western Australia until Sir Charles Court was elected Premier. [More…]
So here we had the Ambassador of the United States threatening a Minister of State of a friendly country with interference in its internal affairs should its democratically elected government ever receive a mandate to take over the investments of American private corporations. [More…]
It sought to make use of Australia’s counter-intelligence organisation in order to deceive the elected Government. [More…]
We believe it is of great importance that when Australia ‘s foreign policy is being discussed in public, the people, through their elected representatives, should be present and should participate. [More…]
It was a very proud moment for me, as an Australian, to see our Minister for Foreign Affairs being elected by an overwhelming majority as Vice-President of the United Nations General Assembly. [More…]
However, part of the trouble is that our delegation at the United Nations seems to be too much concerned with getting on to committees and being elected to various positions of importance at the United Nations. [More…]
When it is asked to give an opinion on whether there is some national advantage in attaching ourselves to a grouping that is more in keeping with our geographical position than WEOG, the delegation immediately colours its advice to us by considering how the new grouping will affect its chances of being elected to some committee. [More…]
Having elected to go that route, I think it is then a nonsense to reserve to the Minister the capacity to overturn individual decisions. [More…]
A group of people have been elected to a body. [More…]
For example the entire delegation from Sydney University was required at the last conference to follow the dictates of three out of five elected representatives. [More…]
This mass rally of parent and teacher delegates elected from across Victoria calls on the Federal Government to provide sufficient funds to achieve minimum standards in schools and TAFE institutions by the end of the decade as advocated by the Schools and TAFE Commissions in their reports of June 1975. [More…]
Secondly, AUS office-holders are elected by delegates at the annual AUS conference in January each year. [More…]
A recent referendum to ensure that all office-holders were elected by a direct vote of all students resulted in IS 000 students voting in favour of this proposal and only 5000 against it. [More…]
A producer consultative group to consist of persons elected to represent the interests of livestock producers in each State and the Northern Territory is to be created. [More…]
Further, when will a statement be made to the Parliament on these much delayed matters so that the elected representatives and the Australian people will have the same opportunity to be informed about them as those people who have vested interests in the oil industry? [More…]
I could not think of anything worse for the trade union movement than to have our friend Mr Tony Macken sitting there as director of the Industrial Relations Bureau and being completely independent of the people’s elected government. [More…]
If so, will the checks be compulsory and will the Minister say whether the use of taxpayers’ money for such purposes justifies public disclosure of the results so that constituents may be aware of the health of their elected representatives? [More…]
The Committee attributed the absence of effective consultation ‘largely to the failure on the part of the previous Government to provide a clear statement of aims, duties and procedures prior to the elections, the disinclination of the elected members to accept a role that was merely consultative, and the state of mutual hostility that prevailed between the NACC and the Department of Aboriginal Affairs from the beginning’. [More…]
The NAC will be composed of 35 members elected for three years in accordance with the provisions of Part D of this charter. [More…]
Members of the NAC elected in a State or Territory will constitute a State Branch of the NAC except that Victorian and Tasmanian members will together constitute one Branch. [More…]
In their absence an acting Chairman shall be elected by majority vote of those present. [More…]
In their absence an acting Chairman shall be elected by majority vote of those present. [More…]
The Council will elect a chairman and deputy chairman who will hold office in that capacity for a period of one year but may be re-elected. [More…]
It is not the Government’s intention to set up a quasi-parliamentary body outside the constitutional parliamentary system, and the National Aboriginal Conference will be a non-legislative forum in which elected members will be free to debate and express, among other things, an Australiawide Aboriginal view on long term goals which the Government should pursue, programs which it should adopt and priorities for expenditure. [More…]
The decision is flying in the face of a very strongly held view on the part of the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee, 41 elected representatives of which have decided that they want their organisation to be known as the National Aboriginal Congress. [More…]
It has been endorsed by the Leader of the Opposition- the one who was only barely elected again today to that position. [More…]
Referring to the then Minister for Agriculture in the Labor Government, Senator Wriedt- accept another body which is elected from the wool growers of this country to represent them. [More…]
What it does not say is whether the members of the producer consultative groups will be elected by the producers themselves, as proposed by the AWMPF and the ACU or by the existing organisations as proposed by the AWGC and the ANCC. [More…]
The composition of the Corporation, as is well known to this House, has been altered with a view to introducing a compact, cohesive working corporation with members of the highest possible calibre, particularly selected to cover new fields of expertise necessary in the interests of efficient meat exporting. [More…]
This should assure a proper flowback of information to all industry groups and to all grass roots producers in each State of the Commonwealth from which this group will be elected on a franchise which is yet to be determined. [More…]
In the normal course of events the first 4 representatives nominated would be automatically elected. [More…]
The exporters and processors shall also set up a consultative group and shall also place names before the Minister for their representatives to be elected. [More…]
Will the Minister state whether he proposes that the producer consultative group members are to be elected directly by producers or indirectly by the producer organisations, as is the case with the Australian Wool Industry Conference? [More…]
For years and years people were calling for that provision, until the Labor Government was elected and gave effect to the proposal. [More…]
Recently we were elected as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Commission. [More…]
-When we were elected to government on 13 December 1975, we unfortunately inherited a vast number of economic problems including the highest level of unemployment that Australia has ever seen since Federation. [More…]
The Government was elected by the people of Australia and it therefore has the responsibility for decisionmaking in this matter. [More…]
We are the elected representatives of the people. [More…]
I was elected to this place at a time when the development of our uranium resources was such a burning issue for Australia. [More…]
Blue Cross Organisations with one exception, make no provision for direct elected contributor representation on the directorates of the organisations. [More…]
Of the 24 members, 8 are elected by the contributors at a public meeting of contributors. [More…]
The Board must include 4 of the members elected by the contributors. [More…]
The rules of the following other ‘open’ membership organisations make no provision for direct elected contributor representation: [More…]
How many taxpayers elected (a) to pay the 2.5 per cent Medibank levy and (b) to join private medical and hospital benefits funds. [More…]
Which of these countries currently have (a) a President and/or Prime Minister and (b) governments that are in power having been freely elected in open, adult franchise elections where any of the country’s citizens were eligible to be candidates with the eligibility being similar to that in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. [More…]
In 1950 he was elected as both archbishop and ethnarch national leader of the Greek people of Cyprus. [More…]
It is a tribute to his qualities that he was elected as both the spiritual and the political leader of his country. [More…]
Following the London agreement in 1959 that Cyprus would become an independent republic, he returned to Cyprus and was elected its first President. [More…]
What is the estimated cost for a full financial year of the Government subsidy for (a) private hospital accommodation and ( b) nursing home subsidies for persons who have elected to choose private health insurance. [More…]
The people of Canberra knew who were to blame and in December 1975 for the first time members of the Liberal Party were elected to Parliament by the voters of the Australian Capital Territory, with instructions to restore good, sound government. [More…]
I am a little tired of accepting the verdicts of the bureaucratic commissions which were brought into existence by the Labor Government and which were given powers to set aside the elected representatives of this nation and be a law unto themselves. [More…]
I think that before too long the common sense of all Australians will be brought to bear and the great majority will support an elected government having this sort of legislation available should circumstances arise when it is necessary to use it. [More…]
The elected secretary is unhappy and has made public statements rebuking the New South Wales executive for its attitude. [More…]
This has been done deliberately and with a callous, cavalier and studied disregard for the rights of the Parliament and of the people of Australia who elected this Parliament. [More…]
We know from experience that the Executive Council is not the fount of all wisdom and it is conceivable that out of 126 elected members of the Parliament one, two or 22 members might be able to suggest in the Committee stage some amendments that will remove some of the obnoxious features of the legislation. [More…]
Honourable members opposite told us before the election in 1975, and they have told us since, that an industrial dispute should take place not by direction of the elected officials of a union but after a poll or ballot has been taken among those who are affected by the dispute. [More…]
-This is a clear and concise Bill which will help to answer a clear and concise question: Who is running this country, the elected government of the people or arrogant trade union bosses? [More…]
They want to know whether the elected government is going to protect them. [More…]
There is no way in a democratic community that a democratically elected government can bring about confrontation which is a much vaunted word used by members of the Labor Party. [More…]
Members of the Council are elected by the Assembly of the Organisation, at which all contracting states are entitled to be present. [More…]
The Council, of which Australia has been an elected member since ICAO came into being, meets in almost continuous session throughout each year. [More…]
In 1950 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the seat of Wollongong-Kembla, which he held continuously until 1963 when he resigned to stand for the Federal Parliament. [More…]
One very good measure of Rex Connor’s stature and popularity was provided by the ballot for the Ministry after my Government was re-elected in May 1 974. [More…]
The particular focus of his loyalties and ambitions was the city of Wollongong, where his family had lived for five generations and where he was first elected an alderman nearly 40 years ago. [More…]
When the Whitlam Labor Government was elected in December 1972 unemployment was approximately 1 . [More…]
People have so often said that one of the reasons a Liberal-National Country Party government is elected is that it is a good management government. [More…]
So this is a government of good management which is exactly the basis on which the people elected us. [More…]
It is not easy for this Government to stand up to the people without the extravagant schemes of the previous government, but we were elected because we were good managers. [More…]
American congressmen and Australian journalists to go to East Timor but will not allow the elected representatives of the Australian people to go there is a complete and utter insult to the Australian people. [More…]
I assured him that if, as was not likely, he were to get the selection and not be elected he certainly would be reappointed as Solicitor-General. [More…]
The steps set out in the policy speech have complied with the mandate on which we were elected. [More…]
With application of the best current techniques to ensure safety for the workers, environment protection, regard for Aboriginal land rights, and an obligation to rehabilitate areas damaged by mining, one can accept the (Fox) report’s conclusion that there is no adequate reason why Australian uranium should not be mined and supplied at the world price to those countries that have elected to develop nuclear power and can be trusted. [More…]
-This democratically elected Government has made a decision regarding uranium. [More…]
It was a conservative government that was elected in Sweden, and part of its platform was to stop the spread of nuclear energy development in that country. [More…]
I am not elected to represent only the people who voted for me. [More…]
I am elected to represent all the people in my electorate. [More…]
Collectively, we in this Parliament are elected to represent all the people of Australia, not just the people who happened to vote for us in the December 1975 election. [More…]
Everyone is aware that there is a violent minority within Australia which is opposing uranium development regardless of a decision of a democratically elected government which has examined the Ranger reports with great scrupulousness and care and has overwhelmingly followed the recommendations of Mr Justice Fox and his fellow commissioners. [More…]
If re-elected they will have to look after greater numbers than before. [More…]
If he is re-elected he will have to look after 10,000 more electors, but he still will not have to look after any more than the average number. [More…]
They have prepared the ground for a more democratically elected parliament, a parliament more nearly reflecting the principle of equal representation than any previous parliament. [More…]
There is a strong suggestion that the mining company is the culprit, that because it elected to take a calculated risk on the continuation of operations it has a debt to those discharged sand miners and those who may have felt the impact of that decision. [More…]
Up to seven members elected by the fruit canneries. [More…]
Grower representatives are then elected by members. [More…]
The producer members are elected by producers (owning 200 or more hives) in the respective States. [More…]
If there is no State Board, members are appointed by the Minister after being elected by wheatgrowers in the State. [More…]
Up to seven members are elected by fruit canneries. [More…]
From the time he was elected to the Parliament in 1943 he served on numerous parliamentary committees, ranging from the Joint Committee on Social Security to the Joint Committee on the Broadcasting of Parliamentary Proceedings. [More…]
Leslie Haylen was elected leader of that delegation. [More…]
He was a member when I was first elected to this Parliament. [More…]
-When I was first elected to the Parliament I was 27 years of age and Leslie Haylen was 46. [More…]
When I was first elected to the Parliament he had just returned from some parliamentary delegation in France. [More…]
Are the elected representatives generally capable of undertaking an increased role in the personal services of local government? [More…]
Likewise, the health benefit organisations- the private funds, as honourable members opposite like to refer to them- together with Medibank Private will be picking up the tab of those people who have elected to pay and are in fact paying towards hospital benefits now. [More…]
Governments are elected to represent the people and to make responsible decisions. [More…]
This organisation has now apparently placed itself above industry organisations, above the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and above the elected Government. [More…]
Under the proposals now released it is envisaged that le gis.lative and executive responsibility for a significant portion of territorial activities will be transferred in one step to an elected Assembly. [More…]
Under the proposals the financial arrangements for Commonwealth assistance to territorial activities would require negotiations on a regular basis between the Commonwealth and the elected Assembly with critical appraisal of expenditure levels. [More…]
The problem in respect of Canberra is that the 18 people elected to the Legislative Assembly have other work to do. [More…]
It is time we did what we wanted to do in the first instance, namely, divide the Australian Capital Territory into four or five electorates with three to five members to be elected from each electorate on the basis of proportional representation. [More…]
That could be done by the newly elected members. [More…]
It was a people’s elected democracy. [More…]
If we in this House lose sight of the need to see the wood, to set aside the trees from time to time and to look forward rather than backwards, we do not deserve to be the elected representatives of the people. [More…]
That is why the Government was elected. [More…]
Now there are 100,000 more unemployed than there were when Mr Fraser was elected on 13 December 1975. [More…]
He came here in the euphoria of the last election, as part of the greatest majority ever to be elected in the history of this country. [More…]
When the Fraser Government came in, within 10 days of being elected the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) announced that the Public Service numbers were to be frozen at the level they were at the end of November. [More…]
’, when there is so manifest a lack of leadership from the elected Government. [More…]
They wrecked one elected Government so they could put their economic and social prejudices into practice. [More…]
When the Fraser Government was elected the deficit was to be $4,500m though the Labor Treasurer said he would be holding it to $2, 800m. [More…]
We know we were elected to do this job because the people know there will be no return to the days of full employment or the days of lower interest rates and lower taxes until inflation is further reduced. [More…]
Those four would not have been elected but for proportional representation. [More…]
One can only comment that the Government, having been elected for just on two years, rather than just tabling documents of this nature should in fact be giving full expression to a national fuel and energy policy. [More…]
The only way in which the Labor, Liberal or National Country Parties are going to be elected on their merits is when everybody in Australia knows what money they are receiving and where it is coming from. [More…]
Unfortunately the honourable member’s expertise was not sufficient to get the Labor Party elected in that part of New South Wales. [More…]
But there is only one elected government, and it is time they learned that. [More…]
He is prepared to put down organised labour in the community, the trade unions in the community which have leaders who are democratically elected, irrespective of their political views. [More…]
I turn once again to the facilities section and refer to some of the critical comments made earlier by the honourable member for Burke I think it is only fair to point out to him that when I was first elected to this place in 1949 the facilities provided to members of Parliament were not as good as they are at the present time; they have improved substantially over the years. [More…]
Today we have 37 all-party committees requiring 297 members, elected strangely enough from a total of 191 senators and members. [More…]
The answer must be that Parliament House is for the governing of this country by those elected for that purpose to represent the people of Australia. [More…]
I suggest that the person elected to accept responsibility on behalf of the Parliament -after all it is the members of Parliament who carry the brunt of criticism for the expenditure of funds or for wasting funds, as the case may beshould have the authority for the expenditure of those funds and also should present the estimates for the Parliament and carry them through the Parliament. [More…]
In many ways we got away with it in 1973 because I think there was at least acknowledgment in 1973 that because the Government had just been elected it was entitled to be extended the normal decencies and to be allowed to use the proper procedures. [More…]
If we are to maintain the policy on which this Government was elected- a dual system of education- we must honour that responsibility. [More…]
It is now eight years since I was elected to the House of Representatives and therefore it is eight years since I earned a living as a taxation consultant. [More…]
One of the reasons why I was elected was what you mugs did. [More…]
I also point out that I have heard less than enough from Government members about the current situation in Thailand where a right wing military dictatorship has overthrown the elected government and placed in jeopardy the future freedom of all Thai people. [More…]
Now the community of Australia is fighting an historic battle for its right to exert the supremacy of the Parliament, the supremacy of the elected representatives of the people. [More…]
It is clear to me that the will of the people of Australia must prevail through the ability to govern of the duly elected government. [More…]
Two months after it was elected it went before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and broke its promise to the Australian people completely. [More…]
This year’s estimates for the Department of Social Security must be assessed in the light of the major reforms achieved since the present Government was elected to office in 1975. [More…]
I do not believe that governments which override the recommendations of independently elected commissioners for the drawing of electoral boundaries play any role in furthering or maintaining democracy. [More…]
In the end there was simply a division of Australia into 41 electorates and members were elected to represent those electorates. [More…]
After he was elected at the great con election of 1975, he discovered the migrant communities. [More…]
The Government moved quickly when elected to office to introduce a number of financial measures to relieve the plight of all businesses. [More…]
One of the great features of this Government is that it does not take any notice of elected advisory bodies such as the Aboriginal Conference, as it is now called, and the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, both of which are basically ignored by Ministers. [More…]
The Government has been saying this from the day it was elected. [More…]
The Liberal and National Country parties have been saying that since I was a member of the Advisory Council, before I was elected to this Parliament. [More…]
At that meeting only one candidate, Mr N. D. Thomas, received more than half the votes and he was declared elected under the Society’s rules. [More…]
Had that move been successful, no one would have been elected under by-law 1 16 of the Society, and it would appear that the senior member of the Liberal Party, as the incumbent director, would subsequently have been declared elected to the vacant position and his indiscretion - [More…]
It will be an offence for a person to hold office knowing that he was not elected to that office by secret postal ballot where required by the Act. [More…]
The Government will pretend to the people that if it is re-elected it will suddenly be able to pull a rabbit- and it does not have that rabbit yet- out of the hat. [More…]
I do not know what sort of opposition was expressed by the unions at the last meeting of the NLCC to the proposal that the court can order that an elected official shall refrain from holding himself out as being so elected. [More…]
They deal with properly elected shop stewards of the union. [More…]
He well knows, and anybody with any industrial experience whatsoever well knows, that any attempt to tear down the trade union structure, to turn it into a tame cat organisation, and to reduce its potence, will succeed only in watering it down to the point where we have either control outside the wishes of the properly elected leadership or leadership that is not acting in the best interests of the unionists. [More…]
The sins of the trade union officials were that they stood up for the union members they represented and carried out the duties of the democratically elected positions they occupied. [More…]
Others have elected not to take the step. [More…]
It was not until the Labor Party was elected to Government in 1972 that the two Ministers concerned got together and quickly reached agreement. [More…]
Because the new averaging arrangements applicable under the new personal tax system will, for 1978-79 and subsequent years, always be of benefit to primary producers, the Bill also provides that all primary producers, including those who have elected to withdraw from the averaging system, will automatically have averaging applied for those years when it is to their advantage for that to be done. [More…]
Is it not a fact that if an election were to be held for both Houses in, say, December, the existing Senate would continue right to the end of June and that the new senators elected could not take their places till next July? [More…]
The commitment on employment and industrial relations was that office bearers of all trade unions and all employer organisations registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act would be elected under Electoral Office supervision by secret ballot. [More…]
I am proud to speak in this House as the newly elected Labor member for Cunningham and as the Federal representative of the greatest industrial and steel producing centre in this nation. [More…]
Before we were elected we indicated to the people of Australia that we would intervene in the incredible situation that has occurred in Australia over the past five years and I believe quite firmly that it has come about by the introduction into the industrial arena of the militant left wing trade unionists who have been intent on destroying the confidence, the economy and the right to work of many Australians. [More…]
He was then elected as a Labor member of the Western Australian Parliament. [More…]
When he dared to arrange for the General Secretary and President of the AWU to be opposed I told him that he would never get to the finishing post because his opponents would find some way of expelling him and his mate so that the General Secretary and President could be re-elected unopposed. [More…]
…. (0 Shall not provide for the dismissal from office of a person elected to an office within the association or organisation unless he has been found guilty, in accordance with the rules of the association or organisation, of misappropriation of the funds of the association or organisation, a substantial breach of the rules of the association or organisation or gross misbehaviour or gross neglect of duty or has ceased, according to the rules of the association or organisation, to be eligible to hold office’. [More…]
In that section we see that the only way that an elected official can be expelled from any union nowadays is if it can be shown that he has been guilty of misappropriation of funds, substantial breach of the rules of the federal union, gross misbehaviour or gross neglect of duty. [More…]
The advisory committee has been elected annually from 1974 onwards and has been doing a remarkable job. [More…]
All such a study would do would be to reveal, in very stark measure indeed, the simple fact- a fact unknown to the honourable gentleman-that this Government’s economic policies are working well and are a consequence of our adherence to a consistent economic program since we were elected to office in late 1975. [More…]
Members of this House were elected on 13 December 1975. [More…]
At the time the Government was elected in December 1975 Australia was in a state of severe depression marked by rapid inflation, rapidly rising unemployment and declining output. [More…]
The result of the Prime Minister’s rush to judgment before next year’s jobs crisis and economic decline is that the incoming government will, for the first seven months of its term, face a Senate elected two years ago. [More…]
Clearly, the Queensland Government is in breach of that proposal when we have regard to the incredible gerrymander that operates in that State where the government of the day is elected on about 24 per cent of the votes. [More…]
I am hoping that when I am elected to the Senate it will be a signal to the Government that the country does want a change of economic policy even though it does not want a change of government. [More…]
In modern democracies we can run democracy with the people and the government elected by the people. [More…]
We are aware of several companies who elected to remit funds abroad and we would add here that none of them indicated that their decision was a result of announcements made by Mr Hayden or other Labor spokesmen, or newspaper articles. [More…]
If these proposed arrangements turn out not to be satisfactory, a future Labor government, such as the one which will be elected in six weeks time, will be free to contemplate such alternative procedures and will adopt them if it believes that they will offer a better modus operandi than that being introduced at present. [More…]
This legislation spells out clearly and definitely that the elected representatives are not going to be sidetracked in carrying out their responsibilities. [More…]
The effect is to enhance these provisions in respect of certain late entrant officers who elected to limit their contributions to the old DFRB scheme, with a consequential reduction in benefit expectation, but who, because of the conversion arrangements from the old to the new scheme, were placed in a disproportionately worse position visavis others transferred to the new scheme. [More…]
The honourable gentleman knows that he supported a referendum designed to see that the House and the Senate were elected at the same time, and that that referendum failed because in some States more support was needed. [More…]
With Ansett support he was able to get out sufficient propaganda and set himself elected. [More…]
It seems perfectly logical to me that the elected Government should determine the nature of our systems and, having done that, to hand over to the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal the power to apply the statutes- not to usurp from the elected representatives the responsibility for determining the nature of the system but to apply the criteria determined by this Government as to the system we should have. [More…]
Instead of the ethnic communities having duly elected representatives, there would be some sort of control from the group concerned which was not essentially an ethnic group. [More…]
The Government does not take into consideration the fact that the elected representative, whoever he may be, will have another 15,000 people in his electorate. [More…]
Everybody should look at the alternative, look at the man who was there for only two years and who has already acknowledged that if he were to be elected he would be only a lame duck Prime Minister, not a man there for the full term, not a man who wants to stay but a man who wants to get out. [More…]
It refuses to change its policies; therefore a new government must be elected. [More…]
On 17 December 1975, just four days after the present Government was elected to office, it instructed the Australian Ambassador in Moscow that he and members of his staff should not in future make official visits to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. [More…]
I can assure them that when the Labor Government is elected we will certainly be giving to environmental matters the kind of attention that they would like to see given. [More…]
It has been one of my great sorrows that the right honourable gentle.man who was elected to this Parliament at the same time as myself and who made his maiden speech on the same night as I did, has refused to benefit from the continual advice I have given him about bis political views. [More…]
As I make what I suppose is going to be one of the last speeches of this Parliament, I remind the House that I made one of the first speeches of the Parliament on the day we elected the Speaker. [More…]
He was first elected in 194S and since then has given long and honourable service to this House, to his electors and to this nation. [More…]
I remember these utterances from when I was first elected. [More…]
When I was first elected we had a Whip who, when the bells rang, would go out into the lobby on the Government side- we were the Government at that time- and in a stentorian voice roar down the passage: ‘Factory whistle. [More…]
I hope he is elected to the Senate. [More…]
I can only say that members are elected here who hold beliefs passionately and when the occasion occurs they express them passionately. [More…]
Because people are elected here to speak fearlessly, without nope of favour, without threat, we must expect the Parliament to be what it is- a live organism, an institution of which we can be proud, but which nevertheless needs some institutional reform, as the honourable member for Melbourne Ports said. [More…]
The Treasurer provided me with a completely adequate statement of his pecuniary interests soon after the government was elected to office and he has updated this from time to time as have other Ministers. [More…]
Today, more than ever before, the Speaker must champion and defend the rights of the freely elected Parliament. [More…]
I hope that in the course of this Parliament the right honourable member for Bruce, if he is elected as Speaker, will display that thoroughgoing independence which would be the quality displayed by the honourable member for Scullin if he were to occupy the Chair. [More…]
I hope that the salary and remunerations received by the Speaker will be lifted to such a level as to exclude the necessity for the right honourable member for Bruce undertaking that sort of activity on any future occasion should he be elected to the Speakership. [More…]
He was elected President of the Senate in 1951, a position he held until 1953. [More…]
He was elected to the Senate for Victoria at the 1940 election, was defeated in 1943 and was then re-elected at the subsequent elections of 1949, 1951 and 1955. [More…]
Only six more votes were needed for the honourable member for Lyne to have been elected here this afternoon. [More…]
I think it is most unusual for any person, irrespective of ability, to be elected to the very responsible position of Chairman of Committees and Deputy Speaker without having at least fulfilled some time, no matter how short, as a Deputy Chairman of Committees. [More…]
At this time may I also convey my congratulations to the newly elected Chairman of Committees and Deputy Speaker. [More…]
But that person, in being elected to the Commonwealth Parliament, also achieved another distinctionthe distinction of being the first woman member of the Senate. [More…]
Congratulations also are in order to the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) who has been elected by his Party, the Australian Labor Party, to fulfil the role of Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition. [More…]
At least in the Labor Party members are elected to the Cabinet. [More…]
It is true that the last Labor Prime Minister sacked three of those who were elected by the Caucus. [More…]
It has now stated clearly that no Minister elected by the Caucus shall ever again be sacked as were Cairns, Cameron and Connor, unless the sacking is done with the approval of three of the four parliamentary leaders and then endorsed by a special meeting of Caucus. [More…]
Whoever is elected by this Parliament to be the Speaker is not just the Speaker from one side; he is our Speaker. [More…]
The Speaker should have the discretion to accept or to reject a motion for the gag or a motion that a certain elected member of the Parliament should no longer be heard. [More…]
Whether you are the Leader of the House or the Prime Minister, I am here to protect the rights of the elected members of this Parliament. [More…]
I wish to convey my personal congratulations to Sir Billy Snedden on the understandable and meritorious majority with which he has been elected to the position he now occupies. [More…]
The Government has been elected with quite an overwhelming majority. [More…]
But it also means this: When members are elected to this place they are elected not as back benchers- a dreadful term- but as private members of Parliament. [More…]
The second point among a number of others which he made is important, that is, for the good of the democratic system there has to be instituted a continuity of policy quite beyond governments and quite beyond parties- a continuity of policy that an electorate will support, no matter which parties are elected to government or which private members are elected to government. [More…]
It will also happen, in Roy Jenkins ‘ words, to determine whether or not governments will be elected. [More…]
Firstly I congratulate the Speaker, who was the representative of Holt for many years, for being knighted and for being re-elected to the chair. [More…]
I had just been elected to this honourable House so I suppose I was not given allowances in case I made a diplomatic mess in some embassy abroad. [More…]
The honourable member for Lalor (Mr Barry Jones) who has just been elected to this House- he might make his maiden speech shortly- will not be able to travel far. [More…]
The people who are elected to this Parliament are responsible. [More…]
Let it be clearly understood that unemployment was not a problem in Australia until the Whitlam Government was elected to office in 1972 and turned the Australian economy inside out during those three years. [More…]
But a considerable number of those who comprise that 8 per cent elected, for other reasons, not to cover themselves with health insurance. [More…]
-First of all, I wish to convey my congratulations to the Speaker and to the Chairman of Committees on being elected to their high offices. [More…]
I congratulate all newly elected members who have already made their maiden speeches and those who have yet to make theirs. [More…]
In 1774 he was elected to Parliament and the next year he was appointed Lord Advocate of Scotland. [More…]
I think that everyone has the right to stand for election to any position and that every credit is due to the elected person. [More…]
First of all, as most other members have done, I congratulate you, Mr Speaker, on again being elected to the Chair. [More…]
I also congratulate the newly elected Chairman of Committees. [More…]
An increasing complexity in decision making, involving a likely shift of power away from elected parliaments/governments towards groups commanding various locations’, or ‘situses’, in society- for example, technocrats, public servants, multinationals, banks, trades unions and universities. [More…]
I say to the Government that it has been elected to lead and if it wants to go ahead, do it, but it should show the House and the people of Australia that it understands economically what is happening around us. [More…]
The Honourable Reg Pollard was elected in 1949 and held the seat until 1966. [More…]
Dr Jim Cairns was elected for Lalor in 1 969 after the Yarra seat was eliminated. [More…]
I believe that this period of government will be very challenging not only for this Government and the people who were elected to this Parliament but also for all Australia. [More…]
The people who are elected to this Parliament must move out into the community and make themselves available to it both individually and collectively so that it can obtain information. [More…]
In this connection I was amazed that Sir John Pagan had once again been elected to the Board of the New South Wales Permanent Building Society Ltd. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, may I, through you, offer to Mr Speaker my congratulations on being elected to that very important position. [More…]
Of course, had an Australian Labor Party government been elected to office those industries could have said goodbye to their futures and those many, many thousands of employees who have been actively involved in the manufacturing industry with their employers for a number of years would no longer be employed. [More…]
However, the sad situation is that just as there was under the Labor Government there is under this Government a section within the Department of Foreign Affairs which has had an enormous influence on foreign policy in connection with the relationship between Australia and Indonesia, and it is about time elected governments started to run their foreign policy instead of allowing the bureaucrats to have so much influence. [More…]
When I was first elected to this Parliament I sat on the other side of the chamber behind a Prime Minister and a Ministry which had a passionate commitment to solving many of the problems which faced and I regret to say still face this country. [More…]
The Fraser Government was elected in December 1975 after forcing an election with tactics which destroyed effectively, perhaps for all time, the convention that a government that continues to have a majority in the lower House has a right to expect to govern. [More…]
To the people of Franklin who worked so tirelessly to have me re-elected I extend my thanks. [More…]
Let me say to the newly elected members that I have certainly received plenty of advice; some I have heeded and some I have not. [More…]
But I believe that with drive and enthusiasm from all the newly elected politicians in this House and from some of the older politicians who perhaps have lost a little of their drive and enthusiasm we can start to work together again to overcome these massive problems. [More…]
I would like also to congratulate the newly elected Deputy Speaker, the honourable member for Wide Bay (Mr Millar), and those honourable members from this side of the House who have made their maiden speeches. [More…]
I support the elected leader of the Liberal Party. [More…]
I generally believe that if a government is elected to power in the lower House and has the numbers and can maintain the numbers in the lower House, it is entitled to expect that it will govern for the three year term unless quite extraordinary events intervene. [More…]
As a profession we should never forget that we represent individuals, that we are elected to serve and to help those individuals. [More…]
I would like to congratulate all the newly elected members of this House on their maiden speeches. [More…]
All elected State Labor leaders became the subjects of index cards, and sometimes of subject sheets and files. [More…]
Only 124 people can be elected to it at any one time. [More…]
Its members have been elected here on 10 per cent of the votes cast in Australia. [More…]
Lots of things were State responsibilities before the Whitlam Government was elected, but between 1972 and 1975 and afterwards it clearly emerged that a lot of things that we believed were the problems of the States were areas in which the Commonwealth became involved. [More…]
that the elected Parliament is a weak and weakening institution; that the Executive Government is the principal beneficiary of the Parliament’s decline; and that the Judiciary is tending to compete with the Executive Government in exploiting the Parliament’s weakness but it is having its own independence undermined through the initiatives of the Executive Government. [More…]
Although the population has increased by 75 per cent the number of elected representatives has hardly increased at all. [More…]
In the State from which I come- I think my colleagues will back me up- there is a feeling that honourable members who are elected to Federal Parliament are perhaps being demoted. [More…]
Otherwise 1 would not have been re-elected. [More…]
I wish to congratulate newly elected members of the Australian Labor Party on their maiden speeches. [More…]
I also congratulate newly elected Government supporters to the Thirty-first Parliament. [More…]
It has given me much pleasure to know that the Government, which gave this firm undertaking before it was elected with such a huge majority, will now carry out its promise. [More…]
We want to make certain that democracy is still available to everybody and that everybody can see their elected representatives. [More…]
They regarded it as quite improper that the lawfully elected government of the country, which is situated in this House and not in the Senate, was being thwarted in its legitimate expectations of passing the Budget, of obtaining further Supply, to administer the affairs of this nation. [More…]
I was elected to this House in 1969. [More…]
We mean the elected government having the final say as to what the targets should be, fully aware that unless there has been some consensus, say through an economic advisory council, in the advice given to the elected government, the Federal Government would have little likelihood of achieving those targets. [More…]
Insufficient guidelines have been set down by the elected government for that institution. [More…]
This has not been the fault of the IAC or the old Tariff Board; it has been the fault of elected governments not grasping nettles such as the one I indicated earlier and not indicating the answers to the hard questions. [More…]
But I still believe that it should be the government of the day which sets the overall guidelines; that it should be the elected Government establishing what is the medium and long term economic strategy within which the IAC should work. [More…]
Such aid will be based on the percentage vote received by the political parties at the previous election or according to the number of candidates elected. [More…]
It has been the intention of this Government since December 1 975 when it was elected to office to reduce real wages continually. [More…]
I can recall stating in this Parliament time and again, including when I was first elected as the honourable member for Mitchell in 1961, that the day of reckoning had to come and that we could not continue, by directive from the Treasury to the Reserve Bank, to encourage the importation of capital as eventually it would mean that we would have two basic problems: Firstly the impact upon our reserves of the withdrawal of capital; and, secondly, the big increase in invisibles caused by the repatriation of profits. [More…]
-Mr Speaker, first may I congratulate you and the Chairman of Committees on being elected to your high offices. [More…]
He has never suffered the repression that unionists suffer in their attempts to represent the people they are elected to represent. [More…]
What we need to do is to have a look at the history of the Government’s economic policy and particularly its ad hockery since it was first elected in 1975. [More…]
With all the wisdom which flowed to you from the people who elected you to the office- these decisions now rest with you- the question I put to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, is this: Can you tell me what is wrong with the people of Bendigo that they send him here? [More…]
Australia is one of fewer than 20 countries in the entire world which still have democratically elected governments. [More…]
As members of this Thirty-first Parliament we in this chamber- on both sides of the Houseand our colleagues in another place, have a great responsibility to those who have elected us to office to justify their confidence in us, to convince them that we as parliamentarians are conscious of their needs and are earnest in our desires to meet those needs within the framework of the overall resources of our nation. [More…]
At the time of the 1975 election a then shadow Minister for the Liberal Party, Senator Rae, promised that the Liberals, if elected, would do better. [More…]
I also congratulate the new honourable members who were elected to this House last December. [More…]
I am responsible to the government, with certain qualifications, but I am not subordinate to a politically elected government. [More…]
Hopefully we have only politically elected governments in this country and hopefully we will continue to have only politically elected governments in this country. [More…]
Somehow he believes that he is responsible to some type of authority provided it has not been politically elected. [More…]
It has reflected an approach to the use of taxpayers money which has been lacking in the recent past to a very notable extent, but which has been restored since that occasion in December 1975 when the Fraser Government was elected with an overwhelming majority. [More…]
It was elected with that majority for many reasons, not the least of which was the fact that the people of Australia called for a whole new approach to the administration not only of government in general but also of the use of public funds in particular. [More…]
Whilst making reference to their election I should like to draw attention to the concluding paragraph of Mr Speaker’s expression of appreciation to the House for having elected him as Speaker. [More…]
On the opening day of the Parliament when the Chairman of Committees was elected, if a telegram that lay on the Speaker’s table had been read earlier there would most certainly have been a different Chairman of Committees. [More…]
I believe that because the honourable member for Lyne had displayed a degree of impartiality during the previous Parliament, the Leader of the House, the honourable member for New England, Mr Sinclair, by the use of other members of that Party, saw that Mr Lucock was not re-elected. [More…]
I heartily congratulate Sir Billy Snedden on being honoured by Her Gracious Majesty the Queen with a knighthood and on being elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. [More…]
I also congratulate my colleague, Mr Clarrie Millar, the honourable member for Wide Bay who was elected to the positions of Chairman of Committees and Deputy Speaker. [More…]
-I am humble and proud to have been elected to the Thirty-first Parliament as the representative of the new electorate of Isaacs. [More…]
He was a member of the Federal convention appointed to draft the Commonwealth Constitution and was elected to the House of Representatives in 1901 as the member for the seat of Indi, which is now held by my colleague, Mr Ewen Cameron, who will be its member for a long time. [More…]
And as your elected representative, [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, the Governor General’s Speech by tradition is an outline of how, and by what means, the Government intends conducting the affairs of the nation during the term of office for which it has just been elected. [More…]
At this time I take the opportunity of expressing to him congratulations and best wishes as I also do to the elected Speaker of the House of the Thirty-first Parliament. [More…]
Files and index cards existed on all ALP candidates and elected members, (‘some of it is offensively inaccurate’), on associated Labor Party organisations for young people and university students, on the ACTU and personalities on its executive . [More…]
This Government, in accepting these recommendations, if indeed it does, will in fact be seeking to deny both the people and their elected representatives in Parliament control over the activities of ASIO. [More…]
It does this by accepting the line that the elected [More…]
To take a more recent example, there can be little doubt that successive Ulster Unionist governments in Northern Ireland elected to the Stormont Parliament were elected according to democratic forms and that they represented the fears, prejudices and hatreds of a majority of the Ulster Protestants. [More…]
-I thought he was elected President. [More…]
Business people who have elected to move out of the metropolitan areas and to set up factories in the country have found to their annoyance and alarm when they go into the cost of running a business, as any competent firm would do, that whilst their transport costs may be less, and usually subsidised by the State government, telephone charges increase astronomically, in many cases to thousands of dollars. [More…]
It has done so in undertakings given before being elected to government and it has executed it in its actions, votings and stances in the United Nations, and I see no reason to change. [More…]
The Queensland State Government opposed the repatriation of those black people to the Pacific Islands even though Australia wanted it, Queensland wanted it and the senators from Queensland and the House of Representatives people from Queensland, who they had been elected on a universal franchise, wanted it. [More…]
But his Government was elected on a multiple voting system. [More…]
-I rise to speak today as the representative elected by the people of Aurukun and Mornington Island to speak for them on this very important matter. [More…]
The Government has received representations in relation to the application of section 98 of the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act to a transferred South Australian railway employee even though he has elected to have his claim for compensation dealt with under the modified Commonwealth Act. [More…]
I refer honourable members to Edmund Burke’s speech to the electors of Bristol in which he told his constituents quite clearly that he was not their agent but that he was their representative; they elected him to use his judgment on their behalf, not to do what they thought was popular at any given time. [More…]
A man was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council. [More…]
The same man will either this year or next year be elected without challenge to the Victorian Legislative Assembly. [More…]
This is one example from Western Australia and where are the elected representatives from Western Australia: Yalgoo, Mt Magnet, Cue and Meekatharra are on the same rail link and each centre is a little further distant than the other from Geraldton. [More…]
I am also conscious that within the parliamentary democracy it is fundamental that people who are elected to come here and serve and those people who serve the members and senators must have security or they will not be able to fulfil the functions for which they were elected. [More…]
Since the Government was elected in December 1975, we have seen little progress in terms of firm action by the Government in the formulation of an energy policy. [More…]
The fact that both governments were elected virtually simultaneously indicates clearly the malaise in the thinking of this Government in relation to this important question of energy. [More…]
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs may declare that the legislation applies to a reserve or community on request by a council established under the Queensland law or if he is satisfied that a substantial majority of the adults resident on the reserve or community wish it; an existing council established under Queensland law or a body declared to be a council for the purposes of the Act, will have the function of managing community affairs and the necessary powers to carry out that function; any declared body established under the regulations will be an elected council or otherwise a properly incorporated body; councils will have power to make by-laws and to authorise entry to reserves; by express provision, councils and individual Aboriginals and Islanders will not be bound to obey directions given by officials under the Queensland legislation; councils will be responsible only to their communities; the Commonwealth may, if it becomes necessary in order to give effect to the purposes of the legislation, make available to councils land acquired by or otherwise vested in the Commonwealth; and in the case of acquisition, the provisions of the Lands Acquisition Act will apply. [More…]
I have twice been elected to represent all the people in my electorate of Leichhardt. [More…]
I was not elected necessarily to represent the view of the Queensland Government in this Parliament, although on many occasions I have agreed with the views of that Government. [More…]
I believe that I have a duty to all those people, as their elected representative in this place. [More…]
That clause provided that, if in a particular State a person elected to have a matter disposed of summarily, he could have it done in this way. [More…]
Australia has been elected to the very important position of Co-Chairman of Working Group 3 of INFCE dealing with the major questions of fuel supply assurances in the context of nuclear nonproliferation. [More…]
So long as we are elected to government we will see that the business of this Parliament is concerned with specific issues that are of the greatest relevance to the people whom we represent. [More…]
It will not be a creature of statute; it will not have any executive authority or power to control the elected Community Council. [More…]
We should ensure once and for all that this country is governed by the elected representatives and not by trade unionists. [More…]
When members of Parliament do not perform their function, they, as elected public figures, are entitled to criticism. [More…]
You promised when I elected you to power that you would turn the lights on . [More…]
That has been the story ever since this Government was elected. [More…]
This is a fight by all men and women of peace and goodwill and by all those who stand for the democratic way of life against any duly elected representative of the people who pays lip service only to the very principles for which the flower of this nation died. [More…]
Number of elected members: [More…]
That the respective States and Territories restrict their electorates to a ceiling number of 6 and that each State use its discretion in realistically setting up its electorates; that this number of six be in effect only until the first election is complete, after which the decision of how many electorates there should be will be decided by the elected members. [More…]
That the members to the National Aboriginal Consultative Council be elected for a term of two (2 ) years and that they be paid a suitable wage to be fixed and that all expenses in consideration of his work be met by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
Gordon Briscoe- We passed a motion that two delegates per region now be elected. [More…]
If we keep the number of constituencies and the number of elected representatives down, et cetera we might be able to have it in late July or early August. [More…]
At the last N AC election several members were elected whom the overall Aboriginal community did not want, and that happened because of the optional voting system. [More…]
One settlement had more inhabitants than another and one candidate got all the votes in the larger settlement whilst the man who would probably have done a far better job for the Aborigines- certainly the Aboriginal community considered that he would have- was not elected because he came from a settlement that did not have the same number of inhabitants. [More…]
He had five or six years practice before I was elected. [More…]
We are talking now of a group of men elected to this Parliament by 14 million Australians. [More…]
I do not think that we were elected here to investigate the niceties of the law. [More…]
I am happy to have been translated from that position through the orderly processes of preselection in the same way as my predecessor, Senator Carrick, was elected to another chamber. [More…]
You are unaware of the fact that no Labor Party will be elected in this country unless it faces the continuing and the greatest economico-political problem that exists. [More…]
The Labor Party will have to depart from that kind of mentality if it is to be elected to office in Australia. [More…]
The people of Tasmania have been saying to me since I was elected to this Parliament - [More…]
I recall that not long after I was elected to this Parliament great pressures had already developed in the primary schools system. [More…]
Six months have passed since this Government was elected and the bank still has not commenced operation. [More…]
The Labor Party will not like my doing this, but I take it back to a document which was prepared and circulated throughout Australia in September 1975 and which had a very distinct effect on the vote in the States of Tasmania, Western Australia and Queensland because it said in clear and unequivocal terms what we believed about federalism and what we would do if elected to power. [More…]
We went on to state in detail in that document the sort of things we would do if elected. [More…]
In paragraph 5 we said that whilst income tax virtually selected itself as the obvious tax from which to give the States a share it did not mean that at some future time some other form of tax might not be considered. [More…]
In fact, the most vigorous of the States-righters, far from having an electorate of their own which is distinct from the electorate which elects honourable members to this House, are in fact elected by exactly the same people, but under a much less democratic system. [More…]
In Queensland and Western Australia we have some of the most outspoken so-called Statesrighters, yet they are elected under the most outrageously undemocratic malapportionment of electorates. [More…]
Let me make it clear at the outset that I believe strongly that organs of the States, such as special branches, must ultimately be under the control of the elected government, ultimately under the control of the people. [More…]
I believe there is something to be said for more of them going overseas for proper training in multidisciplines, including the proper provision of civil liberty facilities to persons with whom they come into contact and including a full understanding of their responsibilities to the elected government. [More…]
It ought to concentrate clearly on the other issues, prevent this tax evasion and do the job for which it has been elected. [More…]
The people of the Northern Territory, in common with other citizens of our federal Commonwealth, have the right- indeed the duty- to control their own affairs through a democratically elected legislature. [More…]
Through the 1950s and 1960s a succession of reforms to that Council was introduced by Liberal-Country Party governments, culminating, in 1968, with a majority of elected over appointed members. [More…]
In 1974 the then Labor Government created the first fully elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
On 9 June 1977, in the case of Johns v Allen and others the applicant sought orders under section 141 that a person purportedly elected to the office of ‘organiser’ in the Geelong sub-branch of the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation not be treated as holding office on the grounds that the rules made no provision for such office. [More…]
It was elected to power in December 1 975 on the promise that within three years it would provide employment for aU those people in this country who wanted it. [More…]
When the Fraser Government was elected to office in December 1975, it was abundantly clear that one of the challenges of management of the economy in difficult conditions was to arrest the rapidly spiralling costs of health care. [More…]
The Parliament elected an Executive. [More…]
That is why we are elected. [More…]
Apparently its legal advice on this occasion was not quite as sound as that given in 1975 when it succeeded in throwing out a democratically elected government. [More…]
Inflation has come down very considerably since the Fraser Government was originally elected. [More…]
I do so in all seriousness because I believe it has been amply demonstrated in the last three weeks that the Department of Defence is completely without ministerial authority, does not answer to the Parliament, does not answer to the Minister and fails to deal adequately with any policy matters which properly should be the responsibility of the elected Government and the Parliament of the country. [More…]
It has been conducting secret, highly political negotiations with the Pentagon on the new station without telling the elected Government what the US is planning. [More…]
Is not the trade union movement entitled to say that its representatives will be elected or selected from the movement and will be directly responsible to that movement and will be replaced if they do not do the right thing, if they do not perform their job? [More…]
Clearly the union members of the Council ought to be elected by the trade union movement and responsible only to that movement. [More…]
The present Government- the Wran Governmentwas elected in May 1976, and if one reads those of the Press who wish to look into the crystal ball there is reason to believe that another State election is not very far away. [More…]
Let us look at the record and see what legislation the New South Wales Government has passed since being elected in May 1976. [More…]
Even among the elected representatives in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, which has a majority with the same political persuasion as this Government and in the Territory generally there has been widespread concern at this lack of consultation. [More…]
We also believe that the people of the Northern Territory through their elected representatives have made it quite clear that they too want self-government. [More…]
There cannot be democracy if elected representatives are denied the opportunity to have their legislation effectively dealt with from the point of view of approval. [More…]
Their destiny should be controlled through their elected representatives. [More…]
We should always apply the democratic principle that the elected representatives should have the support of the parliament. [More…]
In 1974 the Whitlam Government created the first fully elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
was not a duly elected member by reason of his not having been qualified for election or of any other defect in his election; or [More…]
had vacated his office as a member, all things done or purporting to have been done by the Legislative Assembly or that Committee shall be deemed to be as validly done as if that person had, when so sitting or voting, been a duly elected member of the Legislative Assembly, or had not vacated his office, as the case may be. [More…]
We believe equally that if the Governor-General intends to override a law of the elected Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory he should have to get the concurrence of this Parliament or at least have his decision laid before the Parliament so that there is another opportunity for the Legislative Assembly to have its law approved through debate in the Houses of Parliament. [More…]
The ultimate right of veto must rest with the elected Parliament. [More…]
We know from experience that sometimes he acts on advice from people who are not representative of or elected by the people of Australia- with quite disastrous results. [More…]
I think this is probably a wise decision in the short term, but certainly in the long term I would like to see both health and education made responsible to the elected people of the Northern Territory. [More…]
The elected representatives know the needs and aspirations of the people, in terms of health services and education, and they are in a better position to respond to the needs of the people rather than to have those decisions made by people in Canberra. [More…]
I have great faith in the fact that if people are elected they will act responsibly. [More…]
I think there is tremendous potential for savings by the cost of self-government being subject to much closer scrutiny by elected members. [More…]
That would make quite clear to the elected representatives and the people of the Northern Territory the area of reserve powers of the Commonwealth, rather than confront them with a difficult constitutional situation where in respect of every piece of legislation they have to ask whether the conferral of executive authority is wide enough to enable the Assembly to execute the legislation which it has passed. [More…]
The Government has not deviated from that principle since it was elected in December 1975. [More…]
A person who considers the Constitution and the law as the handmaid of his polity is neither qualified to be elected to the high office of the Prime Minister nor can ever be true to his oath. [More…]
By 1980, the National Health Scheme will again be in tattersas it was before Labor was elected to Government on the promise of Medibank in 1972. [More…]
The people endorsed the Medibank proposals in 1972 when they elected the Labor Government to office. [More…]
This Government, in fact, was elected to beat inflation. [More…]
It was re-elected because it was beating inflation. [More…]
Australia has been praised as a country in which, according to the leaders of the governments of Germany and other industrial nations, a democratically elected government, with massive majority support at the last election, has been able to invoke an austerity program in the long term interests of this nation. [More…]
They were able to qualify if they were serving on 6 December 1972 and if they elected to complete their period of engagement. [More…]
Australia was not invited to participate in the peace discussions even though we had committed our troops to fight in Vietnam, but I would have thought that at that stage any Australian, irrespective of his political persuasions, would have said that ‘full, free and democratic elections’ meant that everybody over a certain age had the right to vote; that they would have some identity with the geographic area in which they lived; that the elected representatives would meet in an assembly; that a constitution would be drawn up providing for elections on a set basis; and that the representatives would select the leader. [More…]
On what basis is it proposed that the government be elected? [More…]
I am quite convinced that people in the neighbouring areas, particularly in South Africa, would be keenly interested in seeing what sort of people are elected there. [More…]
Also, the community, through its elected representatives, should accept that governments must pursue welfare policies directed towards areas of real need, such as homeless persons. [More…]
We have seen the deliberate destabilisation of the elected Labor Government. [More…]
The strategy that guides it is the one which this Government has consistently pursued since being elected: A strategy to revive the private sector and to put Australia firmly on the path to long-lasting and real growth. [More…]
When will the Government introduce its legislation to amend sections 47c and 82b of the Public Service Act to make it mandatory rather than a matter of discretion for the Board to reinstate an officer who, having resigned to contest a parliamentary election, fails to be elected. [More…]
If the Prime Minister believes the core of his Government’s policy regarding Aboriginal advancement is summed up in the term ‘self-management’ then let him tell that to the Aborigines of Woorabinda who ask for Federal Government takeover when delegates go to Aboriginal conferences and other organisations but are too frightened even to allow their elected representative, a Labor senator, to go there in fear of political repercussions. [More…]
In Canberra we constantly experience meddling in affairs which should rightly be the province of an elected government. [More…]
We have an elected body, the Legislative Assembly, in the Australian Capital Territory which has no power. [More…]
It has increased parking charges, motor registration fees and bus fares, and it has meddled in a whole range of matters which would normally be the province of a government elected by its citizens. [More…]
I hope that they vote in accordance with what they said their actions would be in this Parliament if they were elected. [More…]
The local council has not got any money at all but it has to continue because it is obligated, not because its members have been elected but because people are starving to death. [More…]
Despite the protestation of the honourable member for Canberra, the Minister has not yet said officially whether we are going to have a referendum about self-government and then elect some people on the same day so that only God will know what they are elected for. [More…]
I think that that should be done by people who are elected by the voters in the national capital. [More…]
While the ACT Electricity Authority has an elected representative on it- a very capable representative in Mr Peter Vallee who is an elected Australian Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly and who represents the elected representatives on the Authority- he still has no power. [More…]
The Authority is not directly responsible to the elected Legislative Assembly; it is responsible to a Minister who, of course, is not elected in the ACT. [More…]
This Government was elected in 1975 on a promise to remove unemployment from the Australian scene. [More…]
That is from a man who has been actively involved in industry for a number of years and whose industry peers have elected him as President of the Queensland Confederation of Industry. [More…]
That is why so many honourable members on the Government side were re-elected in 1977. [More…]
I believe that with the forthrightness, the honesty and the integrity which this Government has shown and which it will continue to show, it will be re-elected again and again. [More…]
As far as he is concerned, once the government is elected it decides what the national interest is and what the people should know, and it is the duty of the public to trust the government. [More…]
The members of this Parliament, who are elected by the people, could make their contribution to that debate. [More…]
In the year since the Council ‘s current Chairman was elected he has been thrust into negotiating an issue in a role and in a manner totally alien to his culture. [More…]
One of the parttime members of the Authority is elected by the Queensland Government. [More…]
Negotiations will be held among Egypt, Israel and- if it agrees to participate- Jordan, as well as elected representatives of the Palestinians to determine the final status of the West Bank and Gaza and- it is hoped- to produce a peace treaty between Israel and Jordan. [More…]
More than 1,000 members have been elected to this place, yet we have had only four women members. [More…]
We might well ask: Even if the expected growth rates of Canberra had been taken into account, would an elected representative body have made a decision that would cost ratepayers so dearly in the future? [More…]
The Labor Government of 1972-75 was elected on a policy of recognising Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
The purchase was welcomed, as part of the Government’s policies for the advancement of the Territory, by Cocos’ first elected Advisory Council, which was established last March, and also by the Cocos Malay Community in a group meeting. [More…]
An elected Local Government Council will be established as soon as possible. [More…]
Senator Alan Missen has been elected by an international organisation as our Australian representative on that campaign committee. [More…]
By the endorsement on the writ, it is certified that John Charles Kerin has been elected. [More…]
Elected to the papacy on 26 August, his reign was tragically brief. [More…]
On being elected Pope he chose to have a simple ceremony for his installation in St Peter’s Square. [More…]
It was on that basis that the Government was elected. [More…]
As members of this Parliament and the Australian populace will remember, the democratically elected government was tossed out on 11 November 1975 by the choice of the then Governor-General. [More…]
In its very first Budget after being re-elected it has increased personal income tax by a minimum of 1.5 percent. [More…]
They are not elected by the Aboriginal people and the land over which they have control is controlled substantially by the State Government. [More…]
What is so sad in terms of the future of this country is that no longer can a secret document be regarded with the sanctity that it should be regarded when it is taken before a Cabinet and considered by the elected government of the day. [More…]
The facts are that the Opposition has elected to say: ‘Ah, we did not bother to send for them’. [More…]
As I said, it has allowed the House that it used in 1975 to get rid of a duly and properly elected government to talk on and on and on. [More…]
We promised in 1972 that if elected we would strive to establish the standard rate of pension, then at about 19 per cent of average weekly earnings, at 25 per cent of average weekly earnings within the normal term- that is, the three-year term of Parliament. [More…]
Whether the Bill is taken as a whole or whether that clause is dealt with separately in Committee, I will not vote with the Labor Party, having been elected as a Liberal member of the Parliament, but I will leave the chamber and reduce, at least by one, the numbers on this side of the chamber who will support this clause, or Bill, as the case may be. [More…]
-I explained to these ill-mannered people last night that as I am elected as a Liberal I would not vote with them but that I would not support the Government and I absented myself from the chamber. [More…]
I worked with the former Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, in the administration of the Australian Labor Party between 1967 and 1972, which was before the Labor Party was elected to office and on many occasions during his work with people who were co-opted to Labor Party committees on the subject of health he was horrified at the way in which the private health funds were giving health insurance coverage to the people of Australia. [More…]
We have not been elected custodians of the taxpayers’ money just to squander funds on enterprises that neither are viable nor offer security. [More…]
The Wheat Board and the Government should consider why many growers elected to sell their crops outside the Board. [More…]
He was an elected member of the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee from 1973 to 1977 and executive member for information and communications in 1 976-77. [More…]
the 1974 double dissolution elected a Labor majority in the House of Representatives, but a tied Senate. [More…]
Not since 1937 has a Government been defeated by a vote of elected Members of any Australian Parliament where that Government enjoyed majority support at the time of election in its own right. [More…]
On both practical and equity grounds the concept of a basic equal component of the Parliament being elected by proportional representation should be accepted and any proposal for reform of the system should include a major involvement of the Senate, but with a role different from the House of Representatives. [More…]
Elected positions were apportioned on confessional lines and a quota system regulated entry into the Public Service and the armed forces. [More…]
When we came to office, we elected to use this tool as a monitoring device, intervening only when necessary. [More…]
There has been an arrangement between a small number of unionists from different unions, who are not elected or recognised members of the executives of those unions, to disrupt and destroy the system. [More…]
Members of Parliament are elected to scrutinise and to ensure protection of the community at large, to ensure that proper procedures take place and that the process of expenditure is both effective and to the public benefit. [More…]
Soon after it was elected in December 1975, the Fraser Government discarded its unequivocal election promise to support wage indexation and since then has argued that real wages should be slashed and even that money wages should be frozen, that wage indexation should be totally abandoned and that we should revert to the system of annual national wage cases with no prima facie presumption that wages should then be increased in line with price movements or indeed with any other specific criteria. [More…]
A new government is usually elected because it has different ideas from the previous government. [More…]
They do not say that we have ratted on our members, and we will be elected again because we are standing up for Tasmania. [More…]
When this Government was elected to office in 1975 it had no alternative but to face up to the unpleasant task of trying to restructure the whole health insurance system. [More…]
If Michael Shatin can be elected to the seat for which he is standing it will certainly be in the interests of the people of Victoria. [More…]
Is the honourable member for Gellibrand really coming into this House seriously suggesting that a government elected in 1972 on the platform of financing public sector expansion through the impact of inflation on a progressive tax scale- a government which, when in 1 975 the Opposition committed itself to tax indexation, remained silent and when as recently as December 1977 was utterly confused as to its attitude to tax indexation- would have adjusted the Hayden tax scales of 1975? [More…]
Mr Dick O’Brien, the newly elected President of the Australian Wool and Meat Producers said: if producers were required to meet capital repayments and interest rates in excess of 10 per cent, then the bank would provide little benefit to agricultural producers. [More…]
1 ) Has the North Queensland Land Council operated for almost 2 years with 75 elected delegates from the 1 7 reserves and 23 towns in North Queensland with Aboriginal communities. [More…]
It is interesting to note that Trans-Australian Airlines has elected to finance its purchase from its own internal sources. [More…]
I would like him to tell us why it did not use its internal resources, why it has not used the profits it has made over the years, to purchase the aircraft, just as the Australian National Airlines Commission elected to use its financial resources rather than to go to the loan market. [More…]
There were all sorts of furphies about $15m in tax being sought by the present Northern Territory Government upon being elected. [More…]
I feel that it would be proper at this stage of my remarks to refer to the failure of the Minister for Primary Industry to implement his mid- 1977 promise to set up an elected producers consultative group. [More…]
A firm commitment was given at that time to have an elected body to advise the AMLC. [More…]
Many excuses have been advanced since that date for the body not having been elected, including the extreme workload of the Australian Electoral Office. [More…]
That too is probably a reasonable excuse, but I still think that the Minister should act, under the existing situation, to see that the producers’ consultative group is elected to advise the AMLC in its operations. [More…]
I would like to think that, when this Producers Consultative Group is eventually formed and the members are elected, the Minister for Primary Industry will think very hard about giving the Cattlemen’s Union a place on the Group and whether Mr Cassell’s actions are in any way representative of the mass feeling of the people in that group. [More…]
That Sydney staff ban all Parliamentary broadcasts and continue with normal programming until the Government agrees to re-establish the position of a staff elected commissioner. [More…]
I said that eligible pensioners would receive payments on 9 November 1978.I said also that those contributors concerned who elected for a refund of some or all of the amount of their ‘supplementary’ contributions could expect to receive payments on and after 15 December 1978. [More…]
It is worth noting, I think, that one recently elected Labor senator has been moved to comment that it appeared that the Labor Party had closet totalitarians in its midst. [More…]
I am surprised that even a newly elected Labor senator should be so naive, because if Mr Hartley can be described as a closet totalitarian it certainly is the first time he has emerged from the closet to expose himself. [More…]
Did the Minister recommend to Cabinet the abolition of the position of staff elected commissioner in the Australian Broadcasting Commission, the central issue in what has now become a serious industrial dispute? [More…]
The Government decided that the staff elected commissioner position would not be continued and that is clear and plain. [More…]
Two previous State members of Parliament were elected to this House. [More…]
-Because we cannot have the elected House of the people dissolved because another House, not elected in accordance with the mandate, decides that it will not grant Supply. [More…]
This was before the Whitlam Government was elected in December 1972. [More…]
In practice, the performance of these agencies very rarely comes under scrutiny from any elected representatives from outside. [More…]
I believe they were elected by the previous council. [More…]
It considers and evaluates an annual program of research into matters of importance to the industry and is controlled by 13 members, seven of whom are elected from the industry. [More…]
If we had locally elected people who were responsible to those who work in the local egg industry, Canberra people might think more seriously about self-government. [More…]
Locally elected people who were responsible to the local people would be under pressure to legislate to look after their local industries. [More…]
Our Minister is elected in Sydney, and although I am not saying that he is disinterested in employment he certainly has not seen fit to take any action. [More…]
This is another very good argument for the view that it is time the people of Canberra elected representatives who are responsible to them and who are prepared to legislate to look after the interests of both producers and consumers in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Whether a person is elected who would have been excluded or not is irrelevant. [More…]
The Parliamentary delegation that went to the Soviet Union could have been looked upon as one that was elected to comply with the wishes of the middle order official from the Soviet Embassy. [More…]
The same can be said for TAA who elected not to give evidence. [More…]
On that basis, let us look at the Government’s record since it was elected. [More…]
Those organisations in increasing numbers are acknowledging, as this Government has acknowledged and proclaimed since it was elected in December 1975, the absolute link between the level of inflation and the level of unemployment. [More…]
The Labor Party will act in accordance with that recommendation when elected to power in 1980 and will repudiate any uranium contracts entered into by the Fraser Government, unless all the unsolved problems have been solved. [More…]
A Labor government when elected in 1980 will have a range of powers available, including the export powers and also the strength of the people- the electors who will elect us to government. [More…]
In fact, I still have the telegram I received from you on 8 May 1973, calling upon me to withdraw my amendments to the Act which required that all union officers exercising powers to make or alter rules, impose fines upon members, expel members or to exercise the functions of union management, must be elected by a direct vote of all of the union members likely to be affected by those decisions. [More…]
It went on to demand amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to provide that all members of a Union committee exercising any powers of management shall be elected by and made subject to the effective control of the membership’. [More…]
I find it rather ironic that when there are complaints about government cutbacks and certainly complaints about the staff elected Commissioner- we find that the Australian Broadcasting Commission Staff Association takes action against those people who are least concerned and who will be hurt the most. [More…]
The Chairman of the Remuneration Tribunal, the honourable Mr Justice W. B. Campbell, has been elected Chancellor of the University of Queensland. [More…]
As the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) has explained, Mr Justice Campbell, who is the Chairman of the Remuneration Tribunal and the Academic Salaries Tribunal has now been elected chancellor of the University of Queensland. [More…]
As announced in May last, the Government believes that it should try to develop for Norfolk Island an appropriate form of government involving the Island’s own elected representatives, under which the revenue necessary to sustain that government will be raised internally by its own system of law. [More…]
Under the Bill, wide powers will be exercised by an elected Legislative Assembly and an Executive Council of Norfolk Island comprising the executive members of the Legislative Assembly, who will have ministerial-type responsibilities. [More…]
At present there is a Norfolk Island Council of eight elected members which may consider and tender advice to the Administrator concerning any matters affecting the peace, order and good government of the Territory. [More…]
This Council will be abolished and replaced by a Legislative Assembly of the Territory consisting of nine elected members, with the wide powers that I have described earlier. [More…]
Very early in the life of the Government which was elected in 197S, it abandoned the Labor Government’s Road Safety and Standards Authority. [More…]
In other States, for example New South Wales, and Tasmania, legislation already provides that payment for milk for manufacture may be made on the basis of fat and protein content In these two States, however, very few factories have so far elected to make payment for manufacturing milk on a fat/protein basis. [More…]
I am pleased to have been elected to this Parliament in 1975, and subsequently reelected, by genuine people who were sick and tired of a group of socialists who did not know what they were talking about. [More…]
However, needless to say, on both these matters there will be close consultation with the council when it is elected. [More…]
a system whereby a conference or council is elected by direct vote of the appropriate section of the membership and the full time officers are elected by and from the members of the conference or council. [More…]
The Act allows current holders of office, from dme to time, to be members of the college which elects persons to those offices for the following term, provided those office bearers do not constitute more than IS per cent of the members of the college and were originally elected to office under a one-tier collegiate electoral system or by direct vote of the appropriate section of the membership. [More…]
Also they must have held office continuously (not necessarily the same office) since being first elected to office. [More…]
I put it to the House that whilst the Opposition has made and no doubt will continue to make a variety of charges about this Government’s economic policy, the one that I think is least sustainable is the proposition that this Government, from the time it was elected, has not made very clear to the Australian people its principal economic goals, and furthermore that it has not stuck to those goals during the past three years. [More…]
He has been elected by his party. [More…]
Does the Prime Minister have any credibility when he says his Government is a low tax Government and then proceeds, as soon as he is elected, to increase taxes by over eight per cent for 90 per cent of taxpayers? [More…]
Let us compare the situation when the Australian Labor Party came into office in 1972 with the situation faced in 1975 and early 1976 by the Fraser coalition Government when it was elected to office. [More…]
In December 1975, the people of Australia elected, with the biggest majority ever, the first Fraser Ministry. [More…]
I should like to refer to some of the statements that have been made recently by Mr Hawke, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and Mr Neil Batt, the newly elected President of the Australian Labor Party at a seminar on computers. [More…]
Anyone who has any doubts about the fact that we are political- and we are not apologising for thatmight care to go through Hansard from 1973 to 1975 and read the speeches made two or three weeks after we were elected to office. [More…]
It has to be recognised that the first time a real and tangible effort was made by an Australian government to achieve peace in Vietnam was after the Australian Labor Party was elected to government in December 1972. [More…]
-Members of the Liberal and National Country parties have always said that a Liberal-National Country Party government had to be elected to prevent the downward thrust of China. [More…]
When I was elected to this Parliament SEATO was a very major area of debate. [More…]
When I was elected as the member for Canberra there were shortages all over Canberra. [More…]
Also fortunately for me they elected a new member for the electorate of Canberra. [More…]
He was elected on the policy of reduction of the Public Service and reduction of public expenditure. [More…]
That is the policy on which the honourable member was elected. [More…]
However, the situation is no longer an internal one when members of parliament become involved in activities which fly in the face of the stated Labor Party policy on which they were elected by the people of the area. [More…]
It was these two happenings that motivated two independent meetings, one held in Sydney, where I was honoured by being elected Chairman and one held in Melbourne where Wayne Reid was Chairman . [More…]
Let us see what the present Government has done in regard to those three things since it was elected in 1975. [More…]
I will not go behind the backs of elected representatives, particularly at sensitive times in the development of communities in the South Pacific as they move towards independence, and listen to those who, firstly, would seek to divide the nation and secondly, are clearly operating against the express wishes of the Government of that country. [More…]
Yet there are grass roots movements in communist countries- in Eastern Europe- in the West and in the Third World which say that this is what ought to happen, that there ought to be an elected world legislature with the power to pass laws on matters in dispute between nations. [More…]
If we do not trust an elected government to be impartial- we do not trust our governments now to be impartial- on sensitive matters there could be a requirement for a two-thirds majority. [More…]
The people of this planet place such a high value on peace that in most cases a three-quarters majority would be obtained if the elected people accurately represented the people of the planet. [More…]
In other words, if the Labor Party were elected to office it would have a capital gains tax but it would not tax gains from capital assets when those gains were below $200,000. [More…]
Honourable members opposite do not have the courage to stand up to their convictions and they do not have the courage to stand up for the platform on which they were elected. [More…]
The Victorian colleagues of Government members- they include one person who attends Cabinet; he is not a Cabinet Minister- are telling pensioners that if they are re-elected the pensioners once again will receive twice yearly pension adjustments. [More…]
It is our responsibility, as elected representatives, to ensure that those women can have safe abortions. [More…]
We are elected by both men and women. [More…]
That policy will lead to industrial chaos in that State if Labor were to be elected and it would lead to an enormous cost to the taxpayer by way of increased taxes, because the Australian Labor Party in Victoria wishes to abolish the Office of Industrial Relations Coordination (Public Employing Authorities). [More…]
What the honourable member for Melbourne by his rude interjections is establishing today is that the Labor Opposition in the State of Victoria would have more hit and miss in the conduct of the Government’s industrial relations if the Labor Party was elected in Victoria. [More…]
I regard it as an undemocratic procedure that this House of Parliament, with not one woman member, with no mandate, and with no direct power in relation to abortions, should be asked to subvert the rightful duties of State governments elected by the majority of voters in those States. [More…]
We as a parliament and as a group of elected representatives of 14.2 million Australians must realise that we have been elected to this place to make decisions. [More…]
Does he seriously suggest that one Liberal candidate will be elected in New South Wales if he has caused double taxation for the people? [More…]
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon elected members of the Ninth Norfolk Island Council. [More…]
In having a look at them we find, at a rough calculation, that no more than 22 could be called democratically elected parliaments. [More…]
They are elected under a very restricted mode of ballot. [More…]
The Paramount Ruler, the head of state in Malaysia, is elected by his fellow rulers for a five-year term after which he resumes his position as ruler in his home State. [More…]
He had long public service, had previously been Sultan of his own State and, as the Prime Minister pointed out, was elected to the position he was fulfilling at the time of his death, that of Paramount Ruler of Malaysia. [More…]
This report simply had to be written today because of the growing concern that the elected Parliament is a weak and weakening institution.. [More…]
To this time the elected representatives of the people have been unable to scrutinise effectively the expenditure of those funds provided by the people. [More…]
It has been disheartening indeed to hear the honourable member for Reid say that the Australian Labor Party will dismantle our policy if it is elected to power. [More…]
by leave- Since this Government was elected in December 1975, all its efforts, and my own, have been directed towards improving the industrial relations climate in Australia. [More…]
In line with this philosophy the proposed amendment provides for a greater control over machinery matters of government for the proposed Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly; control over a much wider number of matters of government; a reduction in the Australian Government’s powers in the Bill; the provision of social security and an industrial court for Norfolk Island; the extension of Australian taxation legislation to Norfolk Island; a Bill of Rights to be included in the Bill; and the proposed Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly to be elected by the fairest method to all concerned, in this instance proportional representation. [More…]
9 ) that members of the Legislative Assembly be elected by a method of proportional representation, the whole of Norfolk Island constituting a single electoral division; [More…]
The Assembly’s office-bearers should resign to the body that elected them- the Assembly- and not to an Australian official. [More…]
that members of the Legislative Assembly be elected by a method of proportional representation, the whole of Norfolk Island constituting a single electoral division; [More…]
After all, we are here as members of a representative assembly elected by democratic processes. [More…]
This can be achieved, we maintain, by giving real power to a democratically elected local assembly. [More…]
Elected Mem., Nat. [More…]
Resources and of Kashmir Affairs, April 1960-62; and of Industries and Natural Resources, 1962-63; for Foreign Affairs and Atomic Energy, 1963-66; resigned from Govt, June 1966, returned to legal profession; imprisoned, Sept. 1968; released Feb. 1969; elected Mem., Nat. [More…]
Reconstruction and Information Jan. 60-62, of Fuel, Power and Natural Resources, and Kashmir Affairs April 60-62, of Industries and Natural Resources 62-65, of Foreign Affairs 63-66; formed Pakistan People’s Party Dec. 67, elected leader 70; led popular movement against Pres. [More…]
An elected Prime Minister was deposed by a military coup. [More…]
The distinguished Oxford academic, Professor H. R. Trevor-Roper unhesitatingly described Mr Bhutto as one of the most brilliant students he had ever known, and it is not without significance that the first official guest invited to Pakistan by Mr Bhutto after he was elected Prime Minister was his old mentor Professor Trevor-Roper. [More…]
In fact, one prominent member of the Socialist Left, Jim Roulston, who for all his official positions and affability was for a long number of years a very, very strict and rigid member of the Communist Party, has now been elected to the Federal Executive of the ALP as a result of a deal made inside the Victorian Labor Party. [More…]
In 1976 when the Hamer Government was last elected in Victoria there were 1,612,300 people in the Victorian work force. [More…]
Recently, local authority elections were held at both Aurukun and Mornington Island and new councils were elected. [More…]
I am informed that almost all of the former councillors in both places were re-elected, including both former chairmen. [More…]
There should be a realisation that this country has great fundamental natural resources and human resources and that the elected representatives of the people, rather the people who get into the act of manipulating those resources, ought to be paramount. [More…]
With some knowledge of human nature, having been involved in many investigations of serious criminal matters before I was elected to Parliament I believe that to be true. [More…]
We are all aware that the present legislature on the island, the Norfolk Island Council, is elected by a simple and seemingly fair method whereby all voters must cast eight preference votes for eight candidates and for no others. [More…]
I place on record the fact that the elected Norfolk Island Council is firmly against the introduction - [More…]
Over the next period- let us hope that it will be no longer than five years- the people of Norfolk Island, through their elected representatives, will be able to control most of the things that affect their daily lives. [More…]
I believe that the elected representatives of Norfolk Island will have the capacity to run their own affairs. [More…]
I have great faith in the ability of the elected representatives, present or future, to undertake the running of the affairs of the island. [More…]
Once Frank Stewart was elected to the Parliamentary Executive in 1969 his contribution was undeniably a substantial one. [More…]
Shortly after the Australian Labor Party Government was elected to office and Frank had been appointed as Minister for Tourism and Recreation, I picked him up at his Bateau Bay home and took him up to Somersby to meet Frank Fox, the entrepreneur who had plans to build Old Sydney Town. [More…]
There has to be, I believe- and the Government certainly maintains this position, as it has ever since it was elected- some protection on the part of the Government of the competitive mining and processing firms which are endeavouring to sell into this cartel dominated market. [More…]
It is one of the promises upon which the Fraser Government no doubt believes itself to have been elected. [More…]
Finally, having expressed my concern about marihuana, I say once again that I was somewhat staggered to find that at a time when we are talking in terms of possible drug addiction and the effect of drugs, whether they be the so-called soft or hard drugs, on the young people of this country, we have a member of the other House who, not long after being elected to Parliament- I refer to an honourable senator from Tasmania- openly advocated that pot be legalised. [More…]
I am certain that he was only carried away with the rush of blood to his head at being elected to Parliament. [More…]
He had a distinguished Parliamentary career, being elected to the State Parliament in 1945. [More…]
He was elected to this House at 1 1 elections. [More…]
In 1955 he was elected unopposed. [More…]
He was elected as member for Maranoa in 1943, the year of a great landslide to the Labor Party. [More…]
I was privileged to be a friend of Sir Charles Adermann during a period of six parliaments from the time when I was elected to this Parliament in 1949. [More…]
After all, he was a Queenslander and one of a group of the most robust members who have ever been elected to the House of Representatives. [More…]
Chokitos make you a better skateboarder, and the girl from the pasteurised Partridge Family has been elected Miss Dill Pickle. [More…]
We are elected to this place by people within our electorates, and this is our domain. [More…]
The Chair elected to give considerable indulgence to the honourable member for Adelaide who, by considerable cunning- in its proper connotation- was able throughout his speech to maintain relevance to the Bills before the House. [More…]
Honourable members should note that the two speakers from the Opposition in this debate, the Leader of the Opposition and the shadow Treasurer, the honourable member for Gellibrand, are responsible for the economic statements of a party which still believes that one of the first obligations of a re-elected Labor government will be to go about persuading the Australian people that they ought to be prepared to pay much higher taxation in order to rebuild the public sector. [More…]
He said that on the quite realistic assumption that the Labor Party would not be elected to government at the very earliest before 1983, one of its first jobs would be to go about persuading the Australian people that much higher taxation was needed in order to pay for an expanded public sector. [More…]
The then leader promised the Australian people that that was what would occur in December 1972 if a Labor government were elected. [More…]
I made inquiries tonight and asked what he did before he was elected to Parliament. [More…]
I think that the honourable member for Adelaide demonstrates a total misunderstanding of the situation and the interests of the people of South Australia whom he is elected here to serve. [More…]
Has the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen Press reports to the effect that the Commonwealth Committee on Southern Africa which met in London on 1 8 May will organise a delegation to put to the British Government the Committee’s view that it should not recognise the Muzorewa Government which was recently elected by 64 per cent of all Rhodesians? [More…]
I make this one proviso: I cannot accept any view from the Public Service unions which might enshrine permanent heads or First Division public servants as being above or superior to elected government. [More…]
An elected government is entitled to expect that its top public servants will cooperate in implementing policies to which it is committed. [More…]
Let there be no argument about the obvious right of an elected government to permanent heads who will administer and not sabotage government aims. [More…]
In the 24 years or so since I was elected to Parliament, it has almost always happened that nobody has been able to predict the end of the session. [More…]
I think this is important for the elected representatives not only on the Government side but also on the Opposition side. [More…]
I think that my constituents would expect their elected representative to make some input to Budget considerations. [More…]
Unfortunately, that is an unhealthy situation, particularly where the input is from the public servants and the bureaucracy and not from the elected members. [More…]
One of the two part time members of the Authority is elected by the Queensland Government. [More…]
The second way in which one can look at a Budget is that any government move with respect to funding relates to whether the government is keeping its political promises to the people- how it is performing in terms of what it went to the people with before it was elected to office and how it is meeting those responsibilities and promises, and the expectations of the people who elected it. [More…]
If the Labor Party were re-elected to government, would it reintroduce Medibank Mark I? [More…]
I have here an article written by Dr Richard Taylor in January 1979 headed ‘Labor Health Policy: ‘How Can Labor Reform the Health Care System when Elected in the 1980s?’ [More…]
The honourable member sitting opposite has a tremendous responsibility not only to his Party but also to the Australian people to let us know just what Australian Labor Party policy is and just what the Labor Party would do in regard to bulk billing if it were elected to office. [More…]
I repeat, as I have said on numerous occasions, that I support the elected leadership of the Liberal Party . [More…]
The position is that this Government was elected to office on the basis that it would reduce taxation. [More…]
It has a responsibility when elected on the basis of certain undertakings and certain promises, to go ahead and to put into legislation what it said it would do. [More…]
I ask honourable members to remember when the Labor Party was struggling to implement its program, which in 1972- it was elected to implement. [More…]
That is the reason why I was elected, and it is one of the objectives I had when I was elected. [More…]
He can nod his head, he can weave and twist, but the fact is that he was elected and became part of a government on the pledge of his leader and on the pledge of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), to maintain Medibank. [More…]
How can the Prime Minister, elected four years ago on the promise that there will be jobs for all who want to work, walk honourably amongst the Australian people? [More…]
That this House denounces and condemns the Leader of the Opposition for his gross deception and fraudulence in endeavouring to pass himself off as a supporter of lower taxation, notwithstanding his atrocious record as Treasurer and his recent public threats exposed at the National Press Club on15 March this year that if elected to power, he would impose additional and iniquitous taxes on the people of Australia, including, a capital gains tax, resource rental tax, and a restructuring of personal income tax involving marginal rates, conservatively assessed as being as high as eighty cents in the dollar. [More…]
This Government was elected on the promise that it would be able to deal with the unions in a proper way. [More…]
This Government was elected on that basis in December 1975 but in the following January it went into the Arbitration Commission and opposed indexation, and it has opposed it ever since. [More…]
In making my contribution to this debate, let me say at the outset that this Government was elected at the end of 1975 on the promise of bringing back responsibility to economic management, of bringing a sick Australia tired of Labor excesses back to economic sanity. [More…]
They spoke in a thundering voice to say that they did not want a locally elected legislative body to order the affairs of the national capital. [More…]
They said they wanted to continue to be administered by the bureaucracy through the national Parliament and the Executive arm of the national Parliament with advice from a locally elected advisory body. [More…]
The elected representatives and advisory body are to assist the Minister for the Capital Territory to administer this city of some 220,000 people. [More…]
I think it is proper at this stage of my remarks to refer to the failure of the Minister to implement the promise he made in 1977 to set up an elected producers consultative group. [More…]
These people were nominated by various producer groups and a firm commitment was given at that time for an elected body to be introduced at the earliest possible time. [More…]
The Australian Capital Territory Poker Machine Control (Amendment) Ordinance 1979 has the effect of removing control over the expenditure of domestic Australian Capital Territory revenues from the elected representatives of the people of Canberra to the Minister for the Capital Territory by specific Australian Capital Territory taxes on the people and incorporated bodies of the territory. [More…]
The Territory’s Legislative Assembly, composed of 1 8 elected representatives from the two Federal electorates, decided which community organisations and which projects were to receive the revenue derived from the operations of poker machines, and honourable members ought to think about that. [More…]
Eighteen elected representatives from the local community deliberated upon and decided how the $lm per annum generated by the use of poker machines in the clubs would be expended. [More…]
The elected representatives of the people of the Territory told the Minister that in their opinion the present arrangements for the distribution of poker machine revenue ought to continue. [More…]
It was arrogant because the Minister did not attempt to enter into any meaningful discussion with the elected representatives of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
He should answer the questions that have been raised and tell the elected representatives in the Assembly why he disregarded their views. [More…]
My Association is particularly concerned that the effect of the Amendment to the Ordinance would be to remove from the ACT elected representatives the prerogative for the disbursement of poker machine revenue derived solely from within the ACT. [More…]
Very patronisingly he asks the opinion of the elected representatives of the Australian Capital Territory at Assembly level and then immediately makes up his own mind. [More…]
As far is I am concerned it is obligatory upon him to take into account the express views of those elected to give a voice to the people of Canberra. [More…]
The Minister has a responsibility to the newly elected Assembly. [More…]
The important issue here is this: Do we have any confidence in the representative system of government or do we have confidence only in the representative system of government when the members are elected to this Parliament? [More…]
We are exchanging the advice of the members of his Department- people of great competence who sometimes needed correcting during their role of advisers to a previous Minister- for the views of the locally elected people. [More…]
The Minister has chosen to disregard completely in this instance the advice of the locally elected people. [More…]
The funds are generated locally and people who are elected locally ought to be charged with the responsibility for them. [More…]
Over the last four years or so we have had a Legislative Assembly composed of 18 elected people. [More…]
In my view the election should have taken place three years after the representatives were first elected as was originally conceived. [More…]
Its personnel has changed a good deal and that is the normal situation of elected institutions in democratic societies. [More…]
In the very heart of the nation, in the place from which many of the decisions of government flow, we do not entrust the elected representatives with this task. [More…]
It seems almost indecent at this stage of the debate to remind the House that every Government member was elected in 1975 on a promise made on their behalf by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to ‘maintain and improve Medibank ‘. [More…]
What he is saying is that he completely disregards an undertaking which a nationally elected government has entered into. [More…]
by leave- I am very pleased to announce that the newly elected Prime Minister of Great Britain, the Right Honourable Margaret Thatcher, M.P., has accepted an invitation to visit Australia and will be here on 30 June and 1 July. [More…]
In 1977-78 exchange losses on loans were $15,831,000, and that was the reason why TAA elected to use its own reserves to purchase its 727-200 series aircraft late last year. [More…]
The Act now requires one member of the Australian Capital Territory Electricity Authority to be a member of the Legislative Assembly who has been elected by the Legislative Assembly as its representative. [More…]
However, this is not to be attained at the cost of removing the principle of accountability to the elected government. [More…]
Mr Salisbury took the view that he was not responsible to the elected Government but to a vague notion, as I have indicated before, which he called the Crown. [More…]
Mr Salisbury took the view that he was responsible to some vague, undefined higher authority called the Crown, not to elected politicians. [More…]
What appears to be the traditional British view on the relationship between Government and the police, of total independence from the elected government, is rejected in Australia. [More…]
It is rather to reinforce the view that the police are accountable to the elected government of the day, and not to some vague notion, as I have indicated before, of a higher authority called the Crown. [More…]
But I am concerned that we should ensure that there are adequate safeguards, guidelines, parameters within which that force can operate- parameters that are not to limit it in the discharge of its duties, but parameters that are to limit its capacity, the capacity of any individual member of the force, the capacity of its Commissioner, the capacity of its ministerial head, to abuse the powers in a way which could erode the authority of a democratically elected Parliament and destroy the possibility of that Parliament being democratically elected again in the future. [More…]
I believe that Parliament over the next decade will need increasingly to ensure that, in the ultimate, it is Parliament that protects the rights of individuals and the very democracy which brings us as elected representatives of the people to this chamber. [More…]
The recognised officers for the preservation of the peace in these localities have been the constable or constables chosen, elected or appointed by the local bodies as by law provided. [More…]
One of my Government’s first promises when we were elected just over two years ago was to restore the integrity and honesty of Government. [More…]
However, the parliamentary delegation ought to include Botswana in its tour as it is perhaps the other democratically elected country in Africa. [More…]
(There was a general election earlier in 1962 prior to independence which saw Dr Milton Obote ‘s Uganda People’s Congress/Kabaka Yekka alliance elected to power. [More…]
By the endorsement on the writ it is certified that Leo Boyce McLeay has been elected. [More…]
To determine whether early retirement affects longevity it would be necessary to compare survival from say age 60 in a group who continued to work after that age with survival from age 60 in a group of similar health at that age and who elected to retire then. [More…]
There is no doubt that the ALP, if elected, would restore the same old Medibank system that existed before. [More…]
The Whitlam Government was elected to office in December 1972, and in 1972-73 the total cost of health care in this country was $2, 505m. [More…]
One is the representative elected by the House of Assembly and the other is a member representing the Department of the Capital Territory. [More…]
I believe that there is an opportunity for elected members of parliament to take an important part in the governing of this city. [More…]
I notice that that also includes the elected member of the House of Assembly. [More…]
It is my view that if someone has been elected to represent the people of the community it is not appropriate for anybody to apply any restrictions to his capacity to carry out his duties. [More…]
I make the point to the Parliament that in the present situation of representative government I do not think that it is appropriate for there to be any restrictions upon the age or anything else of people who are elected as representatives. [More…]
We would certainly revolt against any suggestion that a person should not be elected because of that person’s sex, race or religion. [More…]
One way of course is to retain the idea that members of the House of Assembly should represent the communitybecause they are elected by popular vote- on various organisations, committees and statutory bodies. [More…]
No doubt they will emerge from time to time but the responsible Minister, whatever his politics, should do his best to listen to that elected body whatever its dominant politics may be. [More…]
I believe this for two, as I understand it, powerful reasons, firstly because the terms of settlement it envisages are essentially right in themselves in that they are based on the principles that the people of Zimbabwe- all the people- have the right to choose who shall govern them, and that the government so elected should have real control over the affairs of the country. [More…]
Even though one might see some half truth in that, the implications for the political system under which we are elected to represent the people- that is to say, the democratic system- are very alarming. [More…]
It is no good Government supporters complaining that the procedures being used are not those which would best equip members of the chamber to carry out the functions for which they are elected. [More…]
As far as the position of families is concerned, this Government has a record since it was elected in December 1975, through its Budgets and its other economic decisions, of giving support to the family which is the envy of other political parties in this country. [More…]
Having made those brief comments and without any malice aforethought, and despite the fact that I hope to be elected as a patron of a pet organisation in southern Tasmania with some members who care about donkeys, I am going to turn from the donkey walloper and from his performance last night. [More…]
The people of Australia are going to realise this because next year we will be re-elected and when we move into the 1980s it will be under a Liberal-National Country Party Government. [More…]
In the meantime my constituents are left up in the air and I, their elected representative, am left frustrated in that I am powerless to help them. [More…]
Angola elected seven members to the 1 30 member Assembly. [More…]
Mozambique elected seven members to the 130 member Assembly. [More…]
This Government has eroded the base of the public sector and weakened the ability of the elected government to intervene to protect the interests of the Australian people. [More…]
It really was a final confession by this Government that it has failed totally to fulfil the commitments it made to the Australian people when it was first elected in 1975. [More…]
When Mr Hawke walks into the Labor Caucus room, if he is elected, he has to face up to a combat with Bill Hayden, and he has got Buckley’s chance. [More…]
If the Liberals are elected, they will be forced to go along with Fraser’s policy of introducing a second income tax. [More…]
It was elected as a low tax government but has increased taxation more than any other government has done. [More…]
It is indeed unfortunate to be elected to the Parliament at a by-election caused by the death of a good man. [More…]
When elected, the new Government immediately set about reestablishing the authority of the conciliation and arbitration system and adapting the industrial relations framework to meet the needs of the parties involved and the community. [More…]
The Labor Party may try to claim that if elected this policy gives it the opportunity to seek some kind of social contract with the trade unions. [More…]
The court heard evidence that the present directors, including Urquhart and Pagan, had spent $2.8m in order to get elected. [More…]
Mr Porter when he visited Yarrabah I believe it was the first time he has ever spoken to an elected council of Aboriginal people- said: ‘The Commonwealth Government is the enemy of the Queensland Government. [More…]
All elected State Labor leaders became the subjects of index cards . [More…]
It is exemplified by the Weimar phenomenon, or, in South Australia, the Salisbury phenomenon where the secret service believes it has a loyalty to some higher concept- to the state, to the Crown, or in the case of ASIO, to the Central Intelligence Agency; it has some loyalty over and above, higher and more important than its loyalty or responsibility to the elected executive. [More…]
All of these situations which I have just mentioned- the Weimar, Salisbury and the ASIO responsibility to the CIA- deny the responsibility of the intelligence agency to the democratically elected government of the day. [More…]
In addition, the Government has elected to proceed, contrary to the recommendations of the Fox Commission, with the mining of uranium at Ranger under the repressive Atomic Energy Act and the related Approved Defence Projects Protection Act. [More…]
Section 8 of this legislation for the first time empowers the Director-General of ASIO- who, after all, is a public servant- to override the Minister who, to all intents and purposes, is elected by the people. [More…]
He is there, he is elected and he has the responsibility. [More…]
The whole basis of ASIO is that it has a special God-given, rather than statute-given, right which places it above public scrutiny, able to act on its own conception of public duty, secure in its secrecy and able to do things that are denied the elected Parliament. [More…]
His view was that he had responsibility, that his oath of office gave him an obligation to authorities above the elected government of the day. [More…]
But just as elected governments can go in and they can go out on the vote of the people somebody who takes the view that he has a permanent conception of his duty that is above the political process cannot really be touched by the vote of the people. [More…]
They are not elected by the Parliament. [More…]
It is the Crown and not to any politically elected government or to any politician or to anyone else for that matter. [More…]
That statement in so far that it seems to divorce duty to the Crown from a duty to the politically elected government suggests an absence of understanding of the constitutional system of South Australia or for that matter to the United Kingdom. [More…]
In the 1965 elections, all 189 candidates were nominated by the Central Committee of the ruling Convention People’s Parry and were declared ‘elected’ unopposed on polling day. [More…]
The actions of people have to be directly related to overt activities from which one can form the view, with experience and appropriate intelligence gathering, that what is intended is the constitutional overthrow of the lawfully elected government. [More…]
All elected State Labor leaders became subjects of index cards, and sometimes of subject sheets and files. [More…]
I think that a more liberal attitude- I use the expression hesitantly- towards the manner in which the legislation and Estimates committees are used can help this House to perform the functions its members are elected to perform. [More…]
As members of the Parliament we can consider what is the best and most effective structure of the Parliament, and the means by which members of Parliament can best carry out the functions for which they are elected. [More…]
Some of those people have been elected to this Parliament although 1 am not one of them, of course. [More…]
When they are elected to this Parliament they are not allowed to take part in any sort of discussion like that. [More…]
Were a thousand senators or members to be elected to this Parliament they could have no influence whatsoever. [More…]
In spite of the decision at the Adelaide conference that if elected a future Labor government would return to Medibank, albeit in stages, it should be emphasised that a return to Medibank in 1979-80 would directly cost taxpayers at least $ 1,000m in medical benefit payments alone. [More…]
I congratulate both the previous members who were returned to office and also the two new Liberal members who have been elected to serve the people in the South Australian Parliament. [More…]
We are back to the system that prevailed before the Labor Government was elected in 1972. [More…]
The business and affairs of the Association shall be under the management of the Committee of the Association which shall be elected from financial members and/or persons interested in the advancement of education who are invited by the Australian Labor Party National Executive to become members of the Committee. [More…]
The Committee shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting. [More…]
The President shall be the chairman at any general meeting or special meeting but in the absence of the President the Deputy President and in the absence of both, a member of the Committee elected by a majority of the Committee present and voting shall be chairman. [More…]
It used him in 1975 to its utter disgrace in dismissing a government elected by the people. [More…]
They can direct the trustees not to hand over any money to specified officers who are entitled to be paid their salaries, having been elected to certain offices. [More…]
The honourable member for Wilmot (Mr Burr) boasted that the Government will be reelected whenever the next election is held. [More…]
The employers will be made to suffer; the unions will be made to suffer; the community at large will be made to suffer just because the Government thinks that by enacting this legislation it may create the political climate for being elected again. [More…]
I also directed- this is of particular significance-that Mrs Grunau and the children be offered passages to West Germany at Commonwealth expense in the event that Mrs Grunau elected to accompany her husband with their Australian-born children. [More…]
We lost the opportunity to talk about the use of the ballot box as a means by which people can be elected. [More…]
A person may be democratically elected by any trade union, right wing, left wing, centre or whatever it may be, but the Government is giving itself the power over the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, over the judicial review of the deregistration processes which are now in order, to bring about total confrontation with the trade union movement in this country. [More…]
that Mrs Grunau and the children be offered passages to West Germany at Commonwealth expense in the event that Mrs Grunau elected to accompany her husband with their Australian-born children. [More…]
On 25 November 1977, the former Deputy Leader of the Country Party, the former Minister for Primary Industry, provided an official statement to the Mayor of Alice Springs, Mr George Smith, that if elected to government, the coalition would provide special funds for the construction of the Stuart Highway. [More…]
At that time he said that if elected to government the coalition would provide special funds for the construction of the Stuart Highway. [More…]
It is relevant that on 25 November 1977, the then Deputy Leader of the Country Party and Minister for Primary Industry provided an official statement to the mayor of Alice Springs, Mr George Smith, that if elected to government, the Liberal Party would provide special funds for the construction of the Stuart Highway. [More…]
Although he is an elected representative of that body he seems to think that the way in which municipal facilities are provided is for him to come bleating to the Federal Government trying to wring more money out of it for the sporting ground and facilities he has been speaking about. [More…]
Although you may be the elected people for your area, you do not have the capacity to decide your priorities for funding programs’. [More…]
Some months later Gough Whitlam was elected the Prime Minister of Australia and swiftly started to implement those programs. [More…]
More recently, the National Assembly which was elected on a franchise late last year moved to outlaw the separate place of development, segregation in terms of housing and residential areas, and apartheid in terms of the use of public amenities. [More…]
At the forefront of that demonstration was an endorsed Labor candidate in the recent State election, a man who has been elected to the Parliament but who has not yet taken his seat because of a court challenge. [More…]
His leader said that he would make a good industrial relations spokesman on the back bench because if the newly endorsed candidate for Wills is elected he would be the industrial relations spokesman. [More…]
On page 52 of that report he says that files were held on all elected State Labor leaders. [More…]
I find it extremely demeaning and obnoxious in a supposedly free democracy that an appointed director-general has the final determination over which information on what person or organisation may be provided to an elected parliament. [More…]
In effect, the servant has become the master and we, the elected representatives of the people, must accept without question the opinion of one all-powerful public servant. [More…]
The Government is very silly and very trite if it believes that the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, despite its antidemocratic track record, is going to be a better judge of national security and the people’s democratic rights than those who have been elected to serve the national interest. [More…]
I object to this craven abrogation of responsibility that is outlined in clause 8 to representatives appointed over the heads of the elected people who are supposed to represent the people of this country. [More…]
What the Opposition is trying to do is to give to the democratically elected Executive general access to the information of ASIO, subject to the limitations about specific individuals. [More…]
We believe it is necessary to make it clear by stating quite clearly the authority of the democratically elected Executive to have access to the information provided by ASIO with the specific exceptions listed in the Bill and in our own provision. [More…]
Unless that is done, Ministers of the Crown and their colleagues, leading figures either in Government or Opposition, might be subjected to ASIO’s surveillance without the knowledge of any member of the democratically elected Executive. [More…]
The judgment of those unknown people- not subject to scrutiny, not subject to personal checking so far as we are concerned, not subject to debate and argument- is better that the judgment of the people who are elected to this chamber’. [More…]
If the answer is no, how does the Minister justify in a so-called democratic society the denial of such information not to the Parliament but to the elected Executive? [More…]
Do they rate themselves so low that they believe that as elected representatives of the people, even if they become Ministers of the Crown, Attorneys-General, or Prime Ministers, they are not entitled to know that an appointed public servant has taken it upon himself to place them under surveillance and to construct a file on them? [More…]
Mr Deputy Chairman, I am astonished that any member of this Parliament would get up in his place and behave as though public servants have any greater morality, greater authority, greater integrity and a greater right to be trusted with these kinds of secrets than has an elected representative of the Parliament. [More…]
We are elected by the people of this country; the public servants are not. [More…]
Normally I do not indulge in public comment on municipal affairs, preferring to leave the elected councillors to resolve matters among themselves and accept complete responsibility for their actions. [More…]
While municipal administration goes to pot, Eltham Council seems to have Council time and ratepayers’ funds to spend on matters which are not related to issues on which the councillors were elected. [More…]
Just in case the Opposition should think that the Government is using a heavy hand in bringing about this limitation of debate on these Bills, let me just compare the experience of the Parliament under the present Government since it was elected to office late in 1975 and the experience when Mr Fred Daly was Leader of the House between autumn of 1973 and the Budget of 1975. [More…]
To say that what somebody did in the past is binding upon honourable members who were elected to this House at the last election is constitutional nonsense also. [More…]
I concede that he has been in the chamber for most of the debate, but I, and the people who elected him, want to hear his argument. [More…]
The Executive and the legislature, although composed of persons who are elected to the Parliament, have separate functions and the judiciary has separate functions. [More…]
The other members of the Council will be the elected office holders of: The Australian Association of Permanent Building Societies, the Australian Bankers’ Association, the Housing Industry Association, the Master Builders’ Federation of Australia, the Real Estate Institute of Australia, and the Urban Development Institute of Australia. [More…]
Among the representatives will be elected office holders of the Australian Association of Permanent Building Societies and the Australian Bankers’ Association. [More…]
-I think the report acknowledges that the Federal Government has an enormous responsibility in the area of environmental protection, and it must be borne in mind that the whole question of environmental protection is probably one of the main responsibilities of any elected representatives. [More…]
But it will be supported by the honourable member for Holt (Mr Yates) who will put his Party interests before the interests of the people whom he was elected to represent. [More…]
expresses its concern at the lack of effective accountability of the proposed Commission to either the Government or Parliament of the Commonwealth, or to any other single elected Government or Parliament; [More…]
expresses its concern at the lack of effective accountability of the proposed Commission to either the Government or Parliament of the Commonwealth, or to any other single elected Government or Parliament; [More…]
The management of a stock exchange in Australia is in the hands of a committee elected from its members. [More…]
I am confident that as a result of the way in which the Estimates committees were conducted this year, we will have more effective government and more sensitive government because of a more efficient and appropriate interaction between the elected representatives of the people and those who are there to administer the laws that this Parliament passes. [More…]
The honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen) spoke about the people who are elected to this place. [More…]
We are elected as a Parliament of equals. [More…]
I cannot properly express my indignation at the thought that here am I, an elected member of the national Parliament, being told by members of the Executive and the public servants who prop them up that I cannot have what the independent tribunal says that I can have. [More…]
They do truly have self-management under a local authority which is all Aboriginal, and which is elected by the people of those communities and under a law which gives them the right to control substantially their own destinies. [More…]
We, the elected persons constituting the Yarrabah Community Council, wish to notify the public of the following: [More…]
Of great single importance was the extension of the powers and prerogatives of elected Community Councils, which as corporate bodies are now able to accept greater responsibilities for the conduct of their communities. [More…]
What happened after Labor was elected in December 1 972? [More…]
It has taken nearly four years for Opposition supporters to pluck up enough courage to announce that if elected to government they would return a phased-in or staged-in Medibank-type health insurance system. [More…]
Each Commonwealth government was invited to send up to three delegates chosen from among young parliamentarians and government members, leaders of youth wings of political parties, elected leaders of youth organisations, young trade union leaders and young government officials- all preferably under 35 years of age. [More…]
I point out that as the Standing Orders are silent under the system we have of electing the Speaker of this Parliament- to which you have drawn attention on many occasionsobviously your ruling must depend upon the majority which elected you to that position. [More…]
No, I am saying it will be carried because you are elected by the majority. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that he headed the Karmel Committee set up by the Labor Government within days of its being elected in 1972. [More…]
When he was elected to this Parliament he sought to introduce to its activities measures and controls which he felt should be introduced to control the expenditure of the Public Service. [More…]
It is the Parliament which in turn must report to the nation which elected its members in the first place. [More…]
If we do not allow ourselves in any degree to weaken this umbilical cord between the community which we represent and the right of parliament always to be assured that the activities of government are in the interests of the nation and that the funds gathered from the people by way of taxes are spent in the best interests of the nation, then we will assuredly be able to say to those who have elected us to this august body: ‘ We have served you well ‘. [More…]
I remember reading in one of the biographies of Lord Palmerston that he told his ministerial colleagues when, I think, he was reelected as Prime Minister for the last time, in 1 859, that he thought that within the next seven years- British parliaments at that stage were elected for seven-year terms- Parliament would have exhausted its legislative options; within five or six years there really would be nothing left to legislate on; Parliament would have legislated on all the matters that a government could conceivably deal with. [More…]
The point I make now is that at the coroner’s inquiry two doctors and five nursing staff elected not to give evidence. [More…]
I dare say, too, that some electorate chairmen and some members of electorate committees might also take the view that the member whom they sent up to parliament was not in every respect performing the duties which he was elected to perform. [More…]
rest with an elected government. [More…]
In 1952 he was elected as President of the Party. [More…]
In 1954 he was elected General Secretary of the Party. [More…]
the Government’s wish to establish a fully elected Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory by 31 December 1974; [More…]
It was said that the Labor Government did nothing, but the report by the joint committee on constitutional development states: 1974 a fully elected Legislative Assembly of nineteen members was established. [More…]
The Administrator’s Council was reconstituted to comprise the administrator and five elected members. [More…]
Council alterations; the fact that a 19-member elected House was established before the end of 1974; and the Northern Territory was given Senate representation. [More…]
Whilst we recognise the question of privacy and whilst we recognise the significance of having information disclosed, it is important to look at the matter from the point of view of democracy being strengthened to ensure that people elected to public office or appointed to public office do not get any financial gain by holding that office. [More…]
If there is to be an elected body of any sort its success or failure will depend fairly heavily upon student participation. [More…]
He and I were both elected to this House in 1972. [More…]
We come here elected by the people of Australia. [More…]
They cannot exercise it individually and, therefore, they must have a system of entrusting the sovereignty to others; and that is the democratic parliamentary system in which we are elected, by a group of people in Australia, to come here and speak for them and represent them. [More…]
They are parliaments which are controlled by non-elected people. [More…]
It was on 22 November 1958 that we were first elected to Parliament. [More…]
and (3) No recent representations have been made or discussions held on the terms of development of the Aurukun bauxite deposit However, on IS November 1979 I met briefly with the Project Officer of Aurukun Associates who outlined his organisation ‘s discussions with the Aurukun Aboriginal community and the more recently elected Aurukun Shire Council. [More…]
I ask: Has any approach been made to the Attorney-General to grant a waiver of parliamentary privilege to allow the Deputy Prime Minister to give evidence to the investigation proceeding in Tasmania, alleging conspiracy to bring down a lawfully elected State Government by the offering of bribes - alleged to have come from major gambling interests - to the then Deputy Premier, Mr Lyons? [More…]
Are members to be elected to this chamber on the basis of the wide open spaces or the grains of sand in their electorates? [More…]
What they were doing was usurping the authority of elected governments in deciding policy issues which really bore no relevance to their own industrial affairs. [More…]
The Bill allows former members of the New South Wales teaching service who were teaching in Australian Capital Territory technical institutions in 1976 and who elected to join the Commonwealth Teaching Service after 3 1 December 1976 and before 1 April 1977 to preserve their long service leave conditions that applied under State legislation in force immediately prior to their joining the Commonwealth Teaching Service and to treat future teaching service as if it were State service for the purposes of that legislation. [More…]
The 12 witless men now seem to be replaced by the blustering bravado of the 17 members of the ACTU executive who apparently will lead the ALP into any future political posture they may wish to take with respect to uranium without the elected members of the Parliamentary Labor Party having much say or opportunity to condone it. [More…]